John 15:4 ... (Jesus said) 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.
Exhortation: (Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet)
Consider a branch on a tree. As long as it receives nourishment by feeding off the tree roots, it remains healthy and it has green leaves.
But what happens when it no longer feeds from the tree? What happens when it breaks off from the tree?
It withers and dies.
Some start the word of God and remain for a time but things of this present earth rise up and seem so important and they leave the word and live in the things of the world. They dry up and wither and lose life.
Jesus explains:
Mk. 4 ... The sower soweth the word. 15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; 17And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. 18And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, 19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. 20And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
We feed off THE WORD, otherwise we dry up and die.
Secular things can seem very important to us ... we work toward getting them the way we want them ... then do they continue in that importance? They are so temporary in importance. But they can seem so important at the time.
THE WORD OF GOD is eternal in importance.
As my neighbor was dying, he looked at me and said: "I've decided it doesn't matter who wins the super bowl." (Some people in this world don't even know what the super bowl is!)