"Just before harvest, after the blossom has turned into a maturing grape, he'll step in and prune back the new shoots, ruthlessly hack off all the growing branches."
Who's harvest is it? God's.
Who gives the growth? God.
Who holds the pruners? God.
Who directs the growth? God.
What is our role? Trusting that no matter how painful the pruning is, God is helping us to grow up and produce fruit.
"I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken. Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me. I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing."
Happy Easter!
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God's expectations of His people is obedience. He will provide all that is needed and we as His servants are to live out our lives attempting to live with this as our focal point.
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