The Vinedresser Reveals His Love by Pruning the Vine

The Father Prunes in Love

Pruning does sound painful, doesn’t it? And so I feel it’s essential to recollect who’s doing the pruning. Scripture says, “My Father is the vinedresser . . . I’m the vine; you’re the branches” (John 15:1, 5).

Now we have to keep in mind that the vinedresser loves the vine, and the vinedresser loves the branches. His pruning is not only hacking away or lopping off issues carelessly, however he’s very cautious. He’s very exact, and he solely removes and takes away that which hinders bearing fruit. That’s what the textual content says.

And in reality, it says, “Each department in me that doesn’t bear fruit he takes away, and each department that does bear fruit he prunes, that it might bear extra fruit” (John 15:2). So we have to keep in mind who he’s pruning. He’s pruning those that are abiding in Christ.

The phrase abide really means “to stay” or “to endure.” And so there’s a way that as we abide in Christ, we belief the vine dresser sufficient to stay underneath his pruning. We belief that he’s doing a great work—that he’s taking issues away from us that aren’t good for us and that hinder the fruit of sanctification in our personal lives and likewise the issues that hinder the fruit of excellent works in our lives. And so the Father, as a result of he’s a loving vine dresser, goes to rigorously take these issues away. And so our job because the department is to abide, to stay, to belief. And there’s nice pleasure in that.

Courtney Physician is coauthor with Joanna Kimbrel of Behold and Consider: A Bible Research on the “I Am” Statements of Jesus.

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