Please read the passage before the commentary.
I understand pruning to a certain extent. The object is to cut out the weaker, less desirable plants so that the rest can grow better. My Dad used to prune his garden, removing the smaller carrots so that the remaining carrots can mature better with bigger carrots.
Did your parents prune you? Mine did me. I had to take baths, washing off the dirt I had carefully acquired during a day of play. This was a pruning, a way of ensuring that I did not grow up wild but had to fit into society.
God prunes us. God does it so that we do not grow wild. God’s word prunes us. Baptism prunes us. Difficulties prune us. God is very particular about what God wants for and God will see that these plans come to perfection in us.
If we remain in God, God will continue to prune us, to nourish us, to make us grow into what God wants us to be. We are the branches of the vine; God is the vine. If we remain attached to the vine, we bear much fruit; apart from the vine we are nothing. May we come to understand better how God prunes us and saves us.
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