Daily Light on the Daily Path
Evening January 24
The choice vine.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, … and he looked that it should bring forth grapes.--Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, … envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: … but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandmen. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Abide in me, and I in you. … Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
GEN. 49; 11; Is. 5; 1, 2.--Je. 2; 21; Ga. 5; 19, 21-23; John 15; 1, 2, 4, 8.