All Things For God's Glory

I 've been thinking about the process of pruning today.  As I was meeting with ladies this morning on the front porch, I noticed how overgrown my tomatoes and cucumbers have become with lots  of lush greenery way above the tomato cages, but few blossoms or tomatoes setting.  So after my sweet Mama's left, I got my walker into the patch so I wouldn't fall over pulling weeds and pruning and went at the tomato plants with a vengeance, removing all the green stems that were not putting on blossoms, and now I have a huge pile of stuff to be burned or trashed. John 15:1-2 says that Jesus is the Vine and the Father is the vinedresser. "Every branch that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more  fruit." Verse 5b says, "for apart from me, you can do nothing ." And nothing means nothing...not even just a little.  The warning then sounds forth loud and clear: "If anyone  does not abide in me he ...