{"id":3743,"date":"2025-02-10T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:46:22","slug":"bearing-much-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/bearing-much-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing Much Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Monday, February 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bearing Much Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. <strong>John 15:5<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this powerful verse from John 15:5, Jesus speaks to His disciples about the secret to living a fruitful, purposeful life. He says \u201c<em>He who abides in Me<\/em>\u201d or as it is written in the New Living Translation \u201c<em>Those who remain in me<\/em>\u201d. Here Jesus uses the imagery of a vine and branches, a relationship that speaks to both dependence and unity. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit unless it is connected to the vine, we too can do nothing of lasting value apart from remaining in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The fruit that Jesus speaks of is not just physical or outward success. It is the evidence of a life transformed by His presence. In Galatians 5:22-23, the apostle Paul outlines the \u201c<em>fruit of the Spirit<\/em>\u201d that begins to manifest in our lives when we remain connected to Jesus: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These are not characteristics we can manufacture on our own\u2014they are the natural result of abiding in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus promises that when we remain in Him, we will bear much fruit. This fruit is the evidence of a life transformed by His presence. Consider what kind of fruit God is calling you to bear today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Lord, thank You for the promise of fruitfulness when I remain in You. May my life bear much fruit that brings glory to You. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 10 Bearing Much Fruit I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5\u00a0 In this powerful verse from John 15:5, Jesus speaks to His disciples about the secret to living a fruitful, purposeful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}