John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
I saw an advertisement for a family tree chart and it made me start thinking… what would it look like if I were able to draw my Spiritual family tree. Who shared the Gospel with me? Who shared with them before that? What would it look like if we were able to trace back to the beginnings of our faith.
It would be so great to know the story of each of those people. Where they lived and went to church. How the Gospel was given to them in a way that they could understand and believe.
And then I began to consider what my tree would look like going forward. Who have I shared the Gospel with? Have those people shared it with another? I’m afraid my branches going forward are woefully short of what I would like for them to be.
What about your tree? Has the Gospel stopped with you or will your branch continue? God help us all to share with others so that the family tree of Christians will be full!
Harriet Bowman