Cut Down That You May Grow
“For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.” Job 14:7, 9.
Here, indeed, is hope! Dear child of God, have you been “cut down”? No matter, for “through the scent of water”—Living Water—you may bud again. The husbandman prunes that the tree may yield more fruit, and so it is with God. One has said “God is a zealous pruner, for he knows who, falsely tender, spares the knife but spoils the rose”. It is the truest Love that will “cut down” in order to grow a “tender branch” that “will not cease”.
An husbandman prunes only those trees which are his. What comfort you may take in being “cut down”; this is a reminder that you are truly God’s child and that he is caring for you. He is fulfilling his promise to perform a good work in you until the day of Jesus Christ. He is forming you more to his own image that you may bring more glory to his name.
Here, indeed, is hope! Dear child of God, have you been “cut down”? No matter, for “through the scent of water”—Living Water—you may bud again. The husbandman prunes that the tree may yield more fruit, and so it is with God. One has said “God is a zealous pruner, for he knows who, falsely tender, spares the knife but spoils the rose”. It is the truest Love that will “cut down” in order to grow a “tender branch” that “will not cease”.
An husbandman prunes only those trees which are his. What comfort you may take in being “cut down”; this is a reminder that you are truly God’s child and that he is caring for you. He is fulfilling his promise to perform a good work in you until the day of Jesus Christ. He is forming you more to his own image that you may bring more glory to his name.
~Cut down, that you may grow~
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