Father as vinedresser

Again in John 15 we see Father’s act­ing toward us… and it sounds alot like Romans 11.

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine­dresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Just want to stop here for a moment. This is Father’s dis­ci­pline. He prunes those that bear fruit… just like he dis­ci­plines his Chil­dren (Hebrews 12)

I was going to blog fur­ther on abid­ing in Jesus… but I just watched videos on prun­ing grape vines and learned that prun­ing means cut­ting the lit­tle shoots back to the old-growth trunk. I had imag­ined it dif­fer­ently. And this prun­ing is what I’m dwelling on today.