Pruning

Pruning hurts! I know it is a for a greater thing, for something better and more fruitful. But there is a difference in knowing and experiencing the pain of pruning. I think you know it is pruning because of that pain. 

It hurts because what is being pruned is still living. It is way easier to have something dead and that I no longer care about cut back. That seems far less painful. But there also was no potential for fruit there either. And if there is no fruit, then there are no seeds and no potential to multiply. And God is in the business of seeing us produce fruit for His glory. 

John 15:2

'Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit."

So I am trying to feel and embrace that pain as he prunes. It means there was something living there, that may have been good, but I serve a God who is for my best and his greatest glory. Let us grieve the loss well while looking forward with the hope for what is to grow from pruning.