🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
I am the true grapevine, and My father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit do they will be even more fruitful. — John 15:1-2
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
Growth in Christ involves pruning. Distracted leavings, deviant leanings, and dry learnings are removed so that God can replace these dead ends in our lives for more. God prunes us not merely to remove, but to reconnect with us in a deeper level of relationship.
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Walking away.
This past weekend, my children had a swim meet with a unique format. Swimmers with the best times continued on in the evening for finals.
On Sunday, they made finals. But they took themselves out of each final they qualified for. Not because they didn’t want to compete. They have been training 6 days a week leading up to this champion swim meet. No. They scratched their names off the finals list because of church.
Our church’s Sunday evening service occur concomitantly at the same time as the evening swim finals. A choice had to made. Church or Swim. They chose church.
Walking away from anything significant to us is hard. On our own, even harder. But the pruning that God works in our lives gives us the conviction and courage to walk away. To make our faith bigger than our feelings.
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Wanting any way.
We have wants. This is the humanity dwelling and swelling inside of us. To want anything in any way that satisfies the present day. But the purpose of becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ is to possess less of us and more of Him, and ultimately to propel our worship above our wants. This takes place when we allow God’s pruning process to remove dead debris in our lives so we can reconnect with Him every day.
When we surrender our wants, we let God be the Gardener and Guardian. We allow God to prune our hearts so that we can desire something more, and to protect us from wanting the lesser things of this world. To propel our worship beyond our wants. To walk away from a lesser goal in the flesh to a greater goal in Christ.
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