Seed for April 23

Isa 5:1-2CHAPTER 5

1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.(KJV)

This is our story and His expectation in us: To bring forth sweet juice and not bitter juice. It is easy to see what kind of juice we produce when pressure is applied. We are that grape and when the pressures of life are applied to our lives what comes out? Is it sweetness or bitterness? I learned something along time ago. Pressure comes to our lives to show us what is inside, as it is no surprise to God, seeing He already knows. What is inside will come forth when pressure is put on the grape. You must ask yourself, "Does the sweetness of the Life within come out, or is it the bitterness of me?" "Have I really died, and does He really live in me?"