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I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 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. John 5-1 God is love. What, then, could you or I do to change the nature of God? Could our own child do anything that would change our love for him? No, of course not, and if, from the human standpoint, we are able to give love to our children often when they do not deserve it, how much more love is pouring forth from our heavenly Father! Can we accept the fact that God is love, not God is love if we behave in a certain way, or not just when we are worthy and deserving? Can we accept the fact that God is love, and that God’s rain falls on the just and the unjust alike?
The principle is this: Since God is love, our good must be infinite without any ifs, ands, or buts, because God’s grace is not dependent upon something that you or I do or do not do. The grace of God cannot be withheld. We can turn the electricity on or off and we can turn the water on or off, but we cannot start or stop the flow of God. God is, and God is love in Its completeness and fullness. “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away,” might lead one to believe, after all, that perhaps God punishes in some manner, but that is not true. If you do not abide in this truth, if you do not maintain your conscious oneness with the Christ within you, and through it your oneness with the Father, you will be purged. It will be you separating yourself from God’s grace, and thus being purged, destroyed, burned up, or withered away. To abide in this truth is to live and move and have your being in this consciousness of your oneness with the Christ, and the Christ’s oneness with the Father. This, of course, does not mean that you are connected with people, but connected with the Invisible, so that were you set down in mid-ocean or in the desert, you would be able to say, “Ah, but I am still a branch of the vine, and the vine is still connected with God, and therefore the place whereon I stand is holy ground.” Every time you think thoughts of hopelessness and despair, it is as if you were acknowledging that you are a branch cut off from the vine, and the vine from Gods, and that you cannot reach either; yet all of the time it is right here where you are. It is within you, and it is Omnipresence. I Am The Vine Portions of this are from Joel Goldsmith's Infinite Way Music Epidemic Sound and Mettaverse Music out of step suspended belief solstice journey into the multiverse starlight shine nocturne inner worlds bloom a still mind love the universal constant
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