The Vine

“I am the true vine🌱, and My Father is the vinedresser. 🌿Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more 🍉🌺. 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.” ‭‭John‬ ‭15:1-2‬, 5
Such a powerful few verses for me. He cuts from my life what doesn’t bear fruit, but more than that he cuts what does bear fruit so it will make more and better fruit! And that cut hurts. It can hurt deeply. But when I trust that the one making the cut knows exactly when, where and how my perspective changes and I’m even grateful for the Lord’s loving pruning and the results it produces.

-March 2020