No one has ever asked a plant if it likes being pruned. Wine dressers and fruit growers know which branches must go and just cut and hack. When harvest time arrives, their judgments are justified by and abundance of healthy fruit. Instead of diving its energy into multiple weak or aged branches, the tree pumps its juices into fewer, stronger branches that produce more and larger fruit. If such a process is so successful with plants, how much more successful is the similar process with us and our spiritual growth. Some of our habits, thoughts, diversions and distractions have "got to go" if we are to bear more effective witness and example, or develop a closer relationship with Jesus by carrying out his commands and wishes with less obstruction. Who does our pruning? Our Divine Vinedresser? We ourselves? Both together? Sometimes circumstances, reduction in pay, loss of job, illness force the pruning upon us. Though painful and not fun, it's what makes us better. Bring on the pruning shears, I want to bear fruit that will last!
Bro. Rene
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