When a vine is overgrown
It's tendrils will need pruning.
This is how God shapes a life
And how He does fine-tuning.
He will clip off extra shoots
Which do not have much worth
So the vine will then grow strong
And to good fruit give birth.
Vines which are not pruned
Tend to grow in wrong directions,
Spreading where they should not be.
Their fruits have imperfections.
Jesus watches o'er His vines
With loving care and grace.
When we feel His pruning shears
His care we should embrace.
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 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."
Johm 15:1-2 KJV
© 2009 Arlene Schwartzkopf