Aug 8-9 - Psalm 80:8

You brought us

from Egypt

like a grapevine

Psalm 80:8

Hmm. "What does this mean?" I wondered. 

My first thought was that Israel creeped their way to the Promised Land like a slow growing vine. 

No. The surrounding verses explain it ...

⁷ "O God of Heaven’s Armies ... you cleared the ground for ... ⁸ you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land."

Oh, now I get it. 

God is the sower. And he wants us to be fruitful. 

So what's the land that God has given you?

And how is he actively clearing this land for you?

The Psalmist says, "we took root and filled the land." Are you rooting yourself firmly in God? Are you claiming this place and life that God has chosen for you? 

And when scripture says, "we spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea," are you growing, spreading, filling the earth with you potential and with your witness to God's name? 

You are a grapevine. Where has God planted you? And in what ways are you spreading forth and bearing fruit?

In Christ's Love,

a guy who's a runner ...

but not a jogger ...

I'm a shoot (a runner)

from Jesus the True Vine