I’ve enjoyed gazing at our True Vine, and our loving and faithful Vinedresser. Now, because of the sacrifice of Christ, the Vinedresser will receive a good harvest. It’s through salvation in Christ that we abide in Him as one, receiving from Him the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish the fruit bearing God has planned for our lives. Let’s see what God does with the worthless vine in Isaiah 5.
“And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.”
Isaiah 5:5-6
It had to be removed.
But the True Vine, Christ, will never be uprooted!
The world exalts man’s way above God’s and it is crumbling; unstable; provides fear and insecurity. Those who remain attached to evil by refusing the free gift of salvation in Christ, will be uprooted and trampled down when Christ returns to destroy evil forever. Rather than rejoicing in having a wall, a strong tower, a provider, and One working to grow them and care for them, they reject it all.
The ultimate harvest is drawing near. The Vinedresser is perfect, and now He has a perfect Vine bearing eternal fruit. Those who come to Christ for salvation are the branches abiding in that secure and steadfast Vine. Abiding in Him gives us peace and security. God desires to reveal His glory by bearing much fruit through the redeemed, and they will never be uprooted.