A Natural Thing With A Spiritual Truth...

Read John 15:1-9

As we all know, there are many things in the natural world the Lord uses to get across a spiritual point. If you ever want to get a revelation about God's relationship with us study gardening. I happened across this book one day when I wanted to learn about pruning. What I got was a real spiritual blessing from reading this old book. Here are some of the highlights of the book.

Pruning is the art of cutting and otherwise removing unwanted plant growth to make the plant grow the way you want it to grow. You can prune to increase flowering or fruiting or to remove an injury or disease.
The basic reasons for pruning are: to train plants into desired forms, to rejuvenate old plants, to increase flowering and fruiting, to prevent future damage, to remove injury and disease, and to produce special forms are some of the reasons to prune.
To sum up, there are many kinds of pruning for many purposes, and how you prune depends to a very large extent upon what you are trying to do. All of them have one thing in common, however. They remove from a given plant some portion that interferes with our plans-our ideas of how the plant should look or behave, not nature's. God will prune off from us what interferes with His plan-His idea of how we should look or behave not the natural mans.
Pruning is usually done when the tree is dormant, not growing.
These are only a few of the highlights from the book "Pruning Made Easy" by Edwin F. Steffek I found something spiritual throughout the book. You could probably get any book on gardening and learn a lot of spiritual truths from it.