[Tuesday's Devotional] - Vine Dressing

Vine Dressing Secondly, the gardener has work to do, if I don't put some work in my Vine is not going to improve.  According to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) book 'Pruning and Training' [C Brickell & D Joyce]: 'Without training and pruning, the vigorous, wayward shoots soon become tangled with consequent reduction in light levels and fruiting.' Jesus says: 'He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful' John 15:2 [NIV] A few pruning tips from Brickell & Joyce: Vines should not be allowed to fruit until at least their third year so that vigour is channelled into producing a fully established plant capable of bearing increasingly heavy crops. Fruit is borne on new growth from wood of the previous year. Grape Vines are very long lived, the rods, which soon become thick and gnarled, can produce strong new fruit-bearing shoots for decades.   As we spend time with the gardener he will cut and clean, sometimes old knots are cut back, sometimes young shoots trimmed or trained up, but all with the aim that the vine bears better fruit.   Where do you see yourself – establishing, new growth or thick and gnarled? Where does God need to work?    Guy Mowbray   Twitter Website Copyright © 2017 St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!