Just recently I've taken a job at a local winery and restaurant. And the past couple of weeks I have been working on pruning the vines out in the vineyard. It definitely requires patience while trying to identify which branch to trim, trim it, then disentangle it from the arms of its' comrades. It takes time. But when you reach the end of the row, and look back and see it all trimmed back and neat, it gives you a feeling of satisfaction. And it was during one of these moments that I thought of passages in the Bible regarding vines. More specifically, grafting.
"But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree.." - Romans 11:17
This is the message of Easter in one of it's purest forms. Christ was humiliated. Christ was crucified. Christ rose from the grave. For what, exactly? For us. We are the wild olive shoot that is looking in on something called eternity. The Gardener claimed us, and brought us into this circle of light, and grafted us into His tree.
God has adopted. We are His children.
"For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" - Romans 8:15
Rejoice! Death has lost its sting! Christ is Risen!
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