Thursday, August 4th
Jesus said, " I am the true vine and My Father is the Vinedresser."
John 15:1

The Father who created all that is and has kept it in being since before time was has created His glorious vine to glorify and enjoy Him and all that is ; and in and through the vine Our life intermingles . creates . purifies, prunes and interpenetrates.

All grows and expunges and purifies from within the vine, for all is contained there for the processes needed. So all who affirm their loving allegiance to the living springs which rise from the roots of the vine and interpenetrate every branch and every leaf receive that which is needed for progress and maturity. Those who deny the living, vibrant impulses of life damn up the entrance to their being where their actions and life seal their denial by unlove and hatred , these wither and die and fall from the branch and the vine.

But most of the Father's children lie as dormant branches, content to exist in the context of their apportioned place in the vine. The life-giving richness of that which produces the fruit either passes them by or brings forth puny, undeveloped grapes.

The joy of the Father's heart are the faithfully committed to the life which comes through the whole vine , seeking to have produced in and through them the fruit which their destiny intends. In these I live and rejoice and suffer for the salvation of the less lively parts of the whole . I am the whole and the part, and the vine's very life-blood.