John 15:1-11 KJV
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Do you multitask? I do quite often. I watch a movie on my computer, i more like listening not watching. I playing game, have known to crochet and watch a movie or even cross stitch, but haven't done much hand crafting lately. If I playing game I definitely not watching the screen. So I am listening to this movie on my computer, I finally look up and decide I do not need to watch this any longer, It became to sexually suggestive. The story plot was okay. Yet the other part of the movie was not okay for those that had children in the house. I had no kids, so it did not matter what was on the screen or did it? That depends on whether you into watching a movie or more into the game you playing on the cell phone, to the point you forget the movie is playing. We get off guard by any kind of multitasking, but more and more business multitask from phones to computer screens, to just communicating with a person in front of them. Often doing more then one task is a way of life in business. Without it no one would finish their work late, early or on time. Do we remain in the multitasking that is sin? Consider this if you want to remain in the vine you will remove the sin out or your life and put only the good things of God's word and remove the filth of this world out of your hearing.

How do we multitask with our faith. I sometimes feel I forget this lesson. We need to be so in tuned to our first priority of putting God first and abiding in his word, yet at the same time we need to go on with life. Meaning what? Do our work, do our task, take care of those things in our daily life that is part of who we are as a believers. Examining what we do by God's word, to see if by doing we are also being productive in our faith by not only hearing God's word but obeying it, in everything we do. We might find ourselves not so productive in faith, but very productive in our task at hand in our personal life or business life. Meaning we doing what the world expects and not what Jesus expects.

The world would not care what I watching whether it is violent, sexual, or if a storyline was healthy for the soul. What we put into our hearts and soul matter. When we ask Jesus to be our Savior, we asking him to do more then just forgive us but to help us live the life he wants us to live. One way to do this is read God's word and/ to walk by the Spirit of God in faith. The Bible helps us know the Spirit of God in the things he ask us to do. However to abide in the vine to be productive in faith we must remain by his word, following in the footsteps of Jesus. To follow in the footsteps of love.

I often am remind especially of late, is my action love, or is it selfishness. After my husband fall in December, we found his neuropathy was worse, and I really at that time thought he be on a walker even now, but thank the Lord he is not. He back moving fairly good, still might fall, still a little off balance, but he insisted on mowing the lawn. Now trust me it sounds like I am being selfish by not mowing, but he also knew what had been going on with me and did not want me behind the mower. I was trying to figure who was worse off and then I remember it not who is worse off, it is who can do the task. I told him you can mow, but you can only mow a little, so hopefully by the end of the week it will be all mowed, and I have a small yard. I made him do it in sections at a time. There is a point, I watched him because afraid he would fall. Each day I put the mower up for him, though he pulled it out of shed. He was tired. I had not finished walking the dogs and handed him the leash of the two dogs. I hurried to put the mower away and go into the house and he not there and the two dogs are missing. I thinking has he fallen, am I in trouble. Only to holler loud enough for him to respond from outside. He decide to finish the dog walk literally. I told him you could of wait til i put the mower up and I could of finished the walk. Now my words were I am angry you walked the dogs, my heart was saying thank you and you are alright.

There is a point worry outweighed the joy of the moment he was okay and even finished the walk. Then I realize something more, I should of finished the dog walking when he was mowing. Not worried about whether he would slip and fall. Is he not a child of God, is he not in the hand of God, can i watch him every second of the day. No. My part of wanting to protect interfer with what he is able to do. Mother's are often like that with their children. Wives are often that way after an injury or health issue with their spouse. It is a normal fear, but it also a selfish fear. There are times we have to just trust God and not allow what we got to do affect the health of someone else. It did not hurt him to walk, but he had mowed a small portion of the yard. Is leg was beginning to bother him. He could of fallen but did not. He knows how hard to push himself.

Is what believers do to each other because we care or we want them to run the race heavenward by mothering them and not allowing God's word to work on their heart and Spirit? Are we selfish by our actions of thinking we can produce fruit by mothering another believer. Truth is we can mother but it will not make one a parent of God's flock. We only need one Heavenly Father, we only need one Holy Spirit and we only need one Jesus. Meaning we only need one that is God and is the one able to do the work of God in our heart and Spirit. Though a few parents in the old days would tell you they could take you to the shed to straighten a child out.

I could do nothing for my husband but call for help if he fell again. Only one way to protect was to take the mower away from him. And will you haven't seen the muscles in my husband arms of late, he could yank that mower from my grasp with no problem. No tug-a-war over it. However I can out run him. I am laughing and saying Lord he your child, not mine, you know how to slow him down and speed him up. You know if he really to tired to push the mower into the shed or not.

Point to walk in the vine we got to trust and love the word of God(Jesus) and God Must learn to trust and love God, knowing he cares, loves and teaches each of his sheep. Yet not to finish your work because one is in disobedience because of worry, only causes a task undone. It it all lays at a root of selfishness and not at the root of love.

In Poker you have to know when to hold your cards and when to fold. As a believer all we have to do is abide in the word of God, to abide in the vine of life and produce love and hope. If you only gambling, you can do nothing but win or loose and that only by chance, with God it not a game of chance but life with hope and love. What I learned watching my husband go from walker to mower and from walker to weed eater is a miracle. But to know he still struggling that is where faith must come, by not quitting or giving up. I had been for years the one disabled, now I watch him and know the pain he deals with.

For me to see him moving forward again is a blessing. Well he remain walking, that up to God and his healing ability to do more then thought or believed possible. To move forward is to trust God and to allow a person to grow at their own rate with God. To teach what they will hear of God's word and what they will not leave it in God's hands. Do not be mother hen of God's flock but be the God's servant to the task he called you to. If he called you to preach then let the sheep out the door. If he called you to teach allow them to roam freely in the field, because you can instruct with God's word in the pen, but they need to graze and eat what they can swallow and no one swallowed all of God's words in one mouth full, it a nibble hear and nibble there and nibble tell one is caught and saved. Then it still nibble and chew here and there until one begins to digest alot of the word of God. We grow in the vine not all at once, nor do we always produce fruit. However when you are in season that fruit in that vine should be coming forth in abundance.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today, give the grace we need to follow and be fruit produces by your word, by remain in your word and trusting your word. Help those that teach, and preach your word to be reminded that they are the one to give the word, you make it tasty to those that need it and can consume it no matter if it is a big bite of food or a little. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Colossians 3:1-17 KJV
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.