Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers.
Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. John 15:6 (NLT)
Cut flowers cut from their plants and decorated a funeral chapel seems to make a dead beautiful,
but who could imagine what they go through not to be like the dead they adorns?
But once the dead is buried, so will the dead flowers be.
Likewise, being cut from main stem connecting to roots,
a branch has to strain itself to death for providing self-made saps to its independent bud's life.
But a cut branch already has the death sentence soon after having cut from its vine.
So is our Christian life, relying on self instead of Christ.
Lord, help us not to rely on us but on You alone.