Through the Word of God we are nourished, but through adversity we are pruned. Christ said in John 15:1-2 ""I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit."
When you think of pruning, your mind automatically thinks of plants right, you prune your plants to help them grow and give them strength. By cutting away the unwanted and useless growth it forces the plant to use its life to produce fruit. In the same way that we prune our plants, God prunes us of any unwanted growth in our life; for example, when we start to get a bit prideful, God may need to prune out some of that unwanted pride with a bit of humility.
There are also times that we prune plants simply to shape them and to help them grow properly or into a certain shape. God uses adversity to prune away areas in our life simply to help us grow into stronger Christians, it may not be necessarily something bad in our lives, but simply to shape us into His image into what He wants us to be. The Christian life is about constantly growing, constantly being shaped into what God wants us to be.
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