Daily Lesson for April 27, 2022

 Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 15 verses 1 through 5:

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. 2He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes* to make it bear more fruit. 3You have already been cleansed* by the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.”

In Israel/Palestine there are grapes being grown from vines of the same seed going all the way back to Jesus’ time. Two thousand years later it is the same seed and same fruit of the vine. 

This is a metaphor for the work of the Spirit. Two thousand years later, the fruits of the same Spirit that was in Christ is also in us. 

We share in that same Spirit. We abide in that same powerful goodness and love. 

Two thousand years later, yet the vine is still alive and still bearing the harvest. 

Thanks be to God for this. 

Thanks be to God for the grace to belong to the vine and share in all its life and community-changing goodness and grace. 

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.