The Loyal Minority

The Lord impressed for me to write this message during my meditation with Him this morning, as it might serve a purpose for someone reading it.

"Behing and underneath all this there is a holy, God-plantted, God-intended root. If the primary root of the tree is holy, there's bound to be some holy fruit. Some of the treee's branches were prunded and you wild olive shoots were grafted in. Yet the fact that you are now fed by the rich and holy root gives you no cause to crow over the pruned branches. Remember, you aren't feed the root, the root is feeding you.

It's certainly possible to say, "Other branches were pruned so that I could be grafted in1". Well and good. But they were pruned because they were deadwood, no longer connected by belief and commitment to the root. The only reason you're on the tree is because your graft "took" when you believed, and because you're connected to that belief-nurturing root. So don't get cocky and stunt your branches. Be humbly mindful of the root that keeps you lithe and green.

If God didn't think twice about taking pruning shears to the natural branches, why would he hesitate over you? He wouldn't give a second thought. Make sure you stay alert to these qualities of gentle kindness and ruthless severity that exist side by side in God-ruthless with the deadwood, gentle with the grafted shoot. But don't presume on this gentleness. The moment you become deadwood, you're out of there.

And don't get to feeling superior to those pruned branches down on the ground. If they don't persist in remaining deadwood, they could very well get grafted back in. God can do that. He can perform miracle grafts. Why, if He could graft you-branches cut from a tree out in the wild-into an orchard tree, He certainly isn't going to have any trouble grafting branches back into the tree they grew from in the first place. Just be glad you're in the tree, and hope for the best for the others."


Wow! What a word!

This word was taken from the book of Romans in the Message Bible.