Trimmings

Fall is falling and soon it will be time to trim and prune fruit trees. Now I don’t really know a whole lot about trimming trees. I just make it look the way I want. My brother on the other hand, knows a lot about pruning trees. He has a horticulture degree from Oregon State, and has done a fair bit of pruning. If you prune a tree correctly then the tree will actually bear more fruit the next year. If you do it incorrectly you can end up with lots of leaves and little fruit. It pays to know how to prune your trees.

Jesus says that God is the gardener and He is the vine. God prunes the fruitful to help them produce more fruit, and to the unfruitful He cuts off.   The branches that are cut off die, wither and are eventually gathered together and burned in the fire. The key says Jesus is to remain in Him. If we remain in Him we will bear fruit. But if we don’t remain in Him then we can produce nothing, and that is to risk the possibility of being cut off. So it seems that the question we then need to be asking is what do we do to remain in Him?

Having looked at God’s self revelation, our opportunity to begin a relationship with Jesus, and what it means to be baptized; this week we will look at how we stay connected in communion with God. No one wants to end up in the pile of trimmings!

 

See you at church.

 

Pastor Chris