How Pruning Seasons Prepare Us: John 15:1-11 : Daily Devotional, Daily Bible Study
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Rachel Grohl and I'm your host for the Hearing Jesus podcast, where I help you to know God and to make him known. |
| 0:10.6 | When my husband and I first got married, we bought a home that had been foreclosed upon. |
| 0:16.9 | And so it was a fix rubber for sure, but it's what we could afford at the time. |
| 0:38.7 | And one of the things that property included was two acres of land. And on the land was these grape bushes. I wouldn't say it was a vineyard because it wasn't that big. But there were these grape vines that had turned into bushes because they had gone years without any kind of pruning or care. And I didn't know anything about that at that point. And the first year |
| 0:45.5 | that we lived there, we just were so consumed with the house and getting things ready for our family |
| 0:50.5 | inside that we didn't do much of the outside. But it grew these really beautiful |
| 0:55.9 | looking grapes. And I went to pick some of the grapes and I realized that they did not taste |
| 1:03.4 | very good. They were either rotten or they were not ripe. There wasn't really a happy medium. |
| 1:10.7 | And they went from being like |
| 1:12.5 | not ripe to rotten right away, and then they just fell on the ground. It was not good fruit. |
| 1:18.6 | And so the next year, I determined that I was going to prune these things and work with what I |
| 1:26.8 | had and get some good grapes. So I pruned them |
| 1:30.4 | the next year. And again, I had no idea what I was doing. And I overpruned them, which meant we got |
| 1:37.1 | zero fruit that year. And what I realized was that this idea of pruning really took some knowledge that I did not have. |
| 1:49.4 | And I appreciate that every time I read John Chapter 15. |
| 1:53.9 | And so we're going to do John Chapter 15 in two parts like we did over the last couple of chapters |
| 1:58.6 | because there's two different sections that I really want to spend some time with. The first section is John chapter 15 where it talks about Jesus being |
| 2:06.6 | the vine. Now remember, scripture was written for us, but it was originally written to the ancient |
| 2:14.0 | Jewish people group. And so they were in first century Palestine, where vineyards were |
| 2:19.2 | very common. Their culture was steeped very deeply in agriculture, meaning all of these agricultural |
| 2:26.8 | metaphors that Jesus used were really speaking to the heart of their identity. And so I want you to think through this, and we're going to unpack it, and I'm going to explain |
| 2:37.3 | it to you. |
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