Choosing Our Own Address: In Christ

 Choosing Our Own Address: In Christ


Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
 John 6:56


⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
 ⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. ⁸This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. John 15


These passages suddenly struck me forcibly a few years ago with the thought that I could choose my own address. 


I was free. If I felt angered by people, misunderstood, misused, I didn’t have to dwell in that country–of anger, bitterness, grievance and grudge.


I could choose my own address. I could choose to live in Christ, to dwell there.


I can choose to live in Christ,
Like a fish in the ocean,
An anemone in a tidal pool.
A pea in a pod,
A corpuscle in a bloodstream
Sap in the vine
A molecule in a tear-drop
Marrow in the bone
A baby in the womb
I can choose to live in Christ.


Thank you!