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"How does your garden grow?" by Yvonne Jarrard John 15:1-9, Ezekiel 36:33-36 Pruning: To cut off or remove dead or living parts of branches to improve shape or growth. Don't you just love this time of year? The flowers are in bloom as the fragrance fills the air on a crisp spring day, I love looking at and smelling flowers and walking around in gardens, but let's face it, I have never had a green thumb! My husband Chris is quite the gardener, now I realize why my poor tomatoes and flowers from times past have never grown to bear any fruit or a new green leaf! They didn't have a chance. I didn't know how to take care of what I had planted. My husband showed me that it takes time, work, lots of patience, and tender care to grow something to what it was designed to me. I am amazed as I look around at the peppers, tomatoes, squash and many flowers he has planted and tended to for me, it is beautiful! You have to water consistently, and prune it, so that it will yield more! Have you ever noticed how ugly a plant can look when it is in the pruning process? WOW what it produces after the pruning is unbelievable. Doesn't even look like the same plant! The Lord showed me, that He is the master gardener, and HE IS my husband as well, that He can take time with me, that He has patience with me (Thank you Lord), and that He gives me the tender, consistent, yet sometimes painful pruning to see the things He has purposed, to be produced in my life, IF I will allow Him to do so! Are there things in your life that are not yielding fruit? How about old habits? Stay connected to the vine, that's what He wants us to do. He wants to be deep rooted in us, so that we will be un-shakeable and ever producing fruit! His word says that others will KNOW us by our fruit. We don't even have to speak a word. Does an apple tree tell you it's an apple tree? Does a tomato plant tell you that it produces tomatoes? No. You know it by looking at what stems from the plant. John 15:16 says, "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you, I have planted you, that you might go and bear fruit and keep bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting that it may remain, abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name , as presenting all that I AM, He may give to you. John 15:5 says I am the Vine; you are the branches, Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from me, cut off from vital union with Me, you can do nothing. So how does your garden grow? Does it need the water of the word, does it need pruning from the Master Gardener? Are you ready to yield new fruit? He's waiting... |
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