DUH Moment!

Okay, I had one of those DUH moments this morning. As I was doing my Quiet Time, still continuing to look at the book "Secrets from the Vine" by Bruce Wilkinson, I was reminded about the pruning process God puts us through so that we can produce greater fruit for the Kingdom. Now I'm no green thumb...in fact I have a brown thumb and can kill a plant really quick. But my mother was and is a pretty good gardener and one thing I used to always see her do was remove branches and what she called "suckers" from her tomato plants. When I asked her why she did it, she said, "It helps the plant produce better fruit."

In my Quiet Time, Wilkinson talked about the same thing. By removing excess growth, the sap can then flow to the fruit and make it bigger and sweeter. It is beneficial in the producing of fruit.

Okay, so here's the DUH moment I had. God wants to prune us so that we are producing the right kind of fruit for Him. We have this idea that if we are busy, we are productive. Not so. Productivity, or fruit, and activity have nothing to do with one another. In fact, we need to cut back on some of our activity and focus more on those things that are producing fruit for the Kingdom. I've been guilty to many times of being busy but not really producing any fruit.

Lord, prune me. I know that it is a painful process but remove from my life anything that is getting in the way of me producing fruit for the Kingdom. Help me to willingly give up that which takes away from my productivity for you.

How about you? Do you need to pray that kind of prayer today?