The best wine is not produced by the grapes that are watered regularly. Lots of water and plenty of room to grow yields small, bitter grapes.
If a grape vine is given a favorable environment, it will spend its energy and time producing lush leaves. It won’t bother to make good grapes. But if you make things difficult for the vine it will change the direction of its life and concentrate its energy into producing big clusters of beautiful grapes. Restrict its water, overcrowd it and prune it hard and you will be rewarded with large clusters of sweet grapes.
The vinedresser in heaven knows too that He has to sometimes create stressful situations that we will respond to by producing fruit and not just leaves.
We should be thankful that He knows what we need to make us more productive.
It’s time to let our roots go deep so that there will be plenty of harvest in two or four years.
