Be Pruned

What... Drink Prune Juice? Uhhh... No, trim the bad things out of your life.

I was trimming the dead roses off of our rose bushes and realized how hard it can be and how long it can take to trim the roses out of the bush. This is a lot like when we are trying to clean up our life and live a better life for Christ. It is not easy! It could take a long time to get over your old addictions and completely trim out the "bad" roses. Along the way we might get a thorn or two in our hands, we will get persecuted for living a life for God.

We need to start trimming up our lives, pruning them, becoming more like Christ. Think of how beautiful a rose bush looks after it is all trimmed up, after the roses are gone. Our lives could be like that, they could be better if we would take the time to get rid of the junk in our lives. Yeah you might miss a thing or two so you won't be perfect, but think what better lives we could live for Christ if we really did put some focus on pruning.

My encouragement is to take action steps today that will help you prune your life. Make your life look like a beautiful rose bush. I am going to make a bigger attempt to read the bible daily as my action step so I learn how my life should look. If we know how we should be we will know what we should be getting rid of and don't worry the bible will tell you plenty of things you can get rid of from your life.

I hope this post was ecouraging to you, please comment on it and let me know what you think.