{"query": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_10e0d719020f", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch has no say in where the root goes. It does not"}, {"id": "card_c_dba1398ee6c3", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil ↔ The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Jesus does not say the branch struggles toward fruit or earns it through effort. He says the branch abides.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_65d35b808841", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain ↔ The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The branch that strains away from the vine does not become more fruitful; it becomes dry.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_62eb388b9b67", "title": "The Fruit Is Not Your Project", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not manufacture sap. It does not schedul"}, {"id": "card_c_4df517c00eb6", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil ↔ The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The work of going deep belongs entirely to him. Our part is the simpler and harder thing: staying connected  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_549b1b10d669", "title": "The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nNotice what the branch does not do: it does not produc"}, {"id": "card_n_4b8250d3571a", "title": "The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not strain to stay attached. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_61213be989a5", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not produce fruit by effort. It produces"}, {"id": "card_n_d025499fc999", "title": "The Voice Finds You Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nFour days in the tomb. Wrapped in grave-cloth. Beyond argument, beyond remedy. And Jesus does not dig, does not negotiate, does not explain the biolog"}, {"id": "card_c_5dd6978a7dca", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil ↔ Galatians 5:22", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The fruit that eventually appears — patience, honesty, steadiness under pressure — was traveling upward long before anyone noticed it on the outside.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verif"}, {"id": "card_c_05783e66b4f9", "title": "The Vine Does the Holding ↔ The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A branch does not strain to stay attached. It does not grip the vine through effort or willpower.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_725e45c461c8", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil ↔ John 15", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "\"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\"  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_fb5b63247996", "title": "The Fruit Is Not Your Project ↔ The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The branch that strains away from the vine does not become more productive — it withers.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_be1ffa1aecbb", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain ↔ The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Fruit is not manufactured — it grows from what the vine is already passing through the branch.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_28_23", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:23", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 28:23 — This parable, which (like many of our Saviour's parables) is borrowed from the husbandman's calling, is ushered in with a solemn preface demanding attention, He that has ears to hear"}, {"id": "card_n_4ab28a27c153", "title": "The Source Is Already Inside", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.\n\nJesus does not tell the w"}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_c_f1d25a6beaa8", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain ↔ The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "it grows from what the vine is already passing through the branch  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_416a0ee2264d", "title": "The Voice Before the Step", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.\"\n\nNotice the sequence Jesus gives: hearing comes first, then knowing, then following. He does not say the sheep study a map and then find "}]}