Wellspring Church Pacific Grove

Right? God, in some seasons, prunes things out of our lives so that we can bear fruit. Who here has, like, pruned a rose rose bush before? Right? You gotta be, like, on the verge of killing that bad boy in order to do it right. Right? If you haven't actually pruned a rose bush, like, ask someone to help you, like you're tentatively just gonna be like, oh, snip here, snip here, and like you cut off like an inch. Like the expert comes in, they bring that thing like an inch to the ground. You're like, that is dead. But it's actually how the rose bush will grow the most fruit, have the most flowers, sort of and so it's this interesting thing, right, of pruning in these seasons where God seems to be taking things away. We don't like it, and yet the metaphor suggests, right, like, if God doesn't prune, there is no growth.