Salvation 2025 | Day 18
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakes of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
(Rom 11:17)
rafting is the technique used in agriculture to join parts of two plants, so they grow as one. The scion is cut from a different plant and is joined to a rootstock at the cambium layers. The scion and rootstock are then tied tightly to ensure close contact necessary for successful grafting. They are tied till they fuse together. This describes how we are joined to Christ. We are tightly tied to the point where we become one with Him through faith.
Abraham received the promise when he had no offspring, no law, and no circumcision. Therefore, these standards do not determine our grafting. With Jesus as the root/vine, the way to be attached as a branch is through faith and faith in Him alone. Neither natural birth, nor circumcision, nor even the observance of the law can make you a part of this root — Christ. This way of attachment supposes that both the Jews and the gentiles alike must undergo the same process — faith in Jesus.
Our faith in Jesus starts from our declaration with our mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believing in our heart that God raised Him from the dead. For it is with our heart that we believe and are justified, and it is with our mouth that we profess our faith and are saved. When we looked at ‘FAITH UNTO SALVATION,’ we established that our salvation functions through a divine correlation between belief and confession. Everyone that claims faith in Jesus must go through this process. You can abstain from sin or be generous or as it were, be righteous in the sight of men, but for you to be grafted, there must be a confession and a believing with the heart.
Jesus is the only one true way that leads to life. “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.”
You may be a wild olive shoot, but do not remain a wild olive shoot when there is an opportunity to be grafted into a cultured rootstock. The greatest blessing you can ever receive is to be grafted in Christ and receive the nourishment that He provides.
Further Readings: Isaiah 55:1–2, John 14:6, Romans 10:9–10, 11:17–18
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