Powerful Paradox

By The Old Scot

Fruit is a delicious and important part of our diet, but anyone who works with an orchard or vineyard can tell you that apple or pear or bunch of grapes you may be enjoying right now didn’t “just happen.”

 It was carefully brought along by the grower, by taking proper care of the parent tree or vine.

Let’s focus on the grape vine. Despite the abuse of its fruit, the grape vine has been a blessing to man for thousands of years—and for thousands of years, man has treated the vine harshly. And therein lies a very significant paradox, which our Lord Jesus Christ used in His lesson on the vine and the branches (John 15:1-8): “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it; that it may bring forth more fruit” (v. 2).