Let’s look back at the vine in Isaiah 5:1b-2,
“My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes."
This choicest vine represented Judah. With all God had done for and through His people, they still did not have it in themselves to produce the fruit needed to glorify who God really is. The Vinedresser was not the problem. The vine was. Sinful man just cannot bear good fruit. So what is the answer?
Jesus!
He said in John 15:1,
“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinedresser.”
Judah ceased to bear the wondrous fruit of God and declare His glory when she walked in her own ways, wandered from His commands, and worshipped things other than Him. So God sent His Son to be that perfect Vine – the perfect Man – through whom perfect fruit could be born. When the True Vine was planted on the cross of calvary, he made a way for much good fruit to be born. Through salvation in Christ, we find life, cleansing, and oneness with Him. We are now the branches abiding in Him to bear much fruit for God’s glory.
“Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it abides in the vine,
neither can you, unless you abide in me.
John 15:4
And that is the absolute truth!