Prunes or Pruning…
07 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Have you ever eaten a prune for enjoyment? I have, and I really like them. Now when it comes to pruning things out of my life, I avoid that at all cost. But to grow we must and I know that I have enjoyed the freedom I find when I allow God to prune things from my life. It may be people, things, or anything I hold tightly to. Ugghhh…. I don’t even like talking about it, I feel like a 3-year-old holding tightly to that “something” that I just want to have with me always.
There is a few things & people I have been holding tightly too lately. I continued to “give” them to the Lord or shall I say let him see it while I was still holding on. It was this Monday as I was spinning and my instructor asked what is it that we have placed before the Lord, what have we been worshiping besides him. There was my list, and guess whose name was on it: MY OWN, along with a few other things and people. I realized how much I had worshiped myself and idolized my own pleasure and selfishness before the Lord’s. It really is such a humbling thing. Yet God’s mercy & love continues to pour out. I love how he speaks to me gently he knows how to bring me to repentance. Some people need a lashing of sorts, and well that is just not me. He knows how to bring me to the place of repentance and allow me to feel so loved by him. I know that if I want to glorify him and worship him than I need to allow him to continue to prune away the things that are not of Him.
John 3:30 ” He Must become Greater and I must become Less”
What have you been worshiping lately?
