Bearing Better Fruit....

What a week, can't say that is has been a great one in the history of our marriage, nothing troublesome on the marriage part, jut going through some things mainly dealing with finances or the lack there of! I was driving home form lunch the other day, and I got in the truck, and the new Sanctus Real song that is playing on KLOVE a lot lately was on the radio, and it was the first time that I has heard it! I don't know about you, but sometimes it feels like God is sitting right in the passenger seat of my car with a megaphone, "SAYING HEY STUPID, YEAH YOU, I AM TALKING TO YA" because as I started the ignition that song became very loud, and the Holy Spirit quickly drew my ears to it. I heard the lyrics, and not having heard the song before I started singing right along with it, the chorus: "Whatever your doing inside of me, it feels like chaos bet yet I feel peace." wow I was in tears in a matter of 3 minutes it took me to get from my office to my front door! God is definitely doing a work in my life. Parts of me are feeling that I have failed to provide well for my family, I sent a text to Kimberly this week as she was driving to Wichita to take care of some business, " I am sorry that I have failed to provide the way I hoped a college education would provide for a family" She replied with JOHN 15 which says "I am the vine and my Father is the Gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit While every branch that does not bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more faithful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain 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! This is the key REMAIN IN HIM, so often when things are going well in this Christian life, we only dust God off the bookshelf when a crisis arises, I am guilty. I am learning more and more as elementary as I know this sounds, that being a Christ follower is all about the relationship, that Christ wants to have with His children. So Pruning that is what it is called. God I hope that this is only a temporary state of mind. As the song says it does feel like chaos, but yet I feel so much peace at the same time, because you allowing me to get my house in order. The best is yet to come, and I rejoice, and Father I praise you even in this storm, for you alone are God, and you know my inner most being so as Psalms 27:13-14 says "I am confident of this I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord be strong and take heart and Wait for the Lord. Because I know that one day as Isaiah says I am going to rise up on wings like eagles and have the promises that God has promised me! So with all that being said, yeah it had been a tough week, but I Praise God for a wife,and and son that love me no matter what I can or can't provide financially, and I have a Heavenly Father who is faithful to continue to prune and pluck the bad vine within me, and replace it with the good fruit! IT"S ALL ABOUT THE FRUIT!!