The Vine and Branches

·       The Vine and Branches– I have to share with you, it took me a minute to gain a Godly understanding about this message, though I have heard these scriptures many times.  It’s interesting how the world has deceived us into thinking we can be the “vine” of our life, where all nourishment flows. Its only until we run into trouble, fail, or become broken, that we begin to see and understand, that we don’t have control of anything, and we are not the “vine”. Its only after we are called by God, that we come to understand who the real “vine” is. Only after we accept Christ Jesus as the “vine” and God the Father as the gardener, can we become a mature Christian as God has called us to be.  I didn’t get it for a long time, I thought if I loved the Lord, and walked in his ways that was enough. I didn’t get it that all my nourishment, all my understanding, all my strength, all my plans, all my hope has to come from the “vine”, Christ Jesus. I didn’t get that Christ Jesus is the “vine” in which everything I need comes from, none of it comes from me, none of it comes from someone else. I didn’t get it, that I was a branch standing in the mist of other branches before the Lord. I didn’t get God the Father as the gardener, and he was pruning things away from me, and out of my life. I though I was suffering, but God was pruning me all this time.