Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Romans 11:19-23
by: Leanne Lippincott.
Sometimes, my thumb seems more black than green, but I still enjoy growing things. At winter’s end, I especially enjoy watching my dormant grape vines spring to life, draping a shawl of green over my garden fence.
The Bible contains references to both pruning and grafting. In these verses, Jewish unbelievers were “branches” which were broken off the holy root, Jesus, allowing Gentiles to be “grafted in.” Paul warned his Roman brethren to avoid complacency because they, too, could be cut off. And all is not lost for the Jews—if they accept Christ, “God is able to graft them in again” (v. 23).