Monday, April 27, 2009

IHS - May 2009

IN HIS STEPS




MAY

PRUNE

The gardener prunes every branch that bears fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit. Pentecost is a big feast of the Church. Celebrated in May, we recall the coming of the Holy Spirit, His descent unto God's people, filling them with His grace, clothing them with His power.

As the Spirit indwells us, He fires us up with great passion and love for the Lord's ways, enabling us to live lives of true Christian witnesses. Pruning is essential to the process of picking up our cross, our discipleships in Christ. Pruning is about purification. The Lord allows us to strengthened by challenges, trials, disappointments, frustrations, falling short of God's expectations - so that we may realize more deeply, that our God desires our all, and only the best of us. He knows what is within our capacity to give. He created us in the first place.

Our prayer is that we will respond openly to this pruning, even if it will bring us to our desert. Let us meet Christ in the desert and like Him, rise victorious, out of the world's temptations.

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