Life and the living are all in Our Heavenly Father’s plan, will, and purpose. The dead and dying are removed because their purpose has been fulfilled, even if they were unfruitful. Unfruitfulness is necessary as a comparison to good fruit. If you are participating in a dead or dying pursuit, take a different path. Our Heavenly Father is in the midst of the growing, living, fruitful aspects of life. This is what pruning is all about. The dying branches are sucking the life out of the plant and thus they need to be removed so the energy can be focused on the living aspects of the plant. If your pursuit is sucking the life out of you and you are constantly tired and unfulfilled, maybe you should pursue another way. This is true in all aspects of life.
Have you pursued a failed opportunity? If so, there was something missing or unworkable. In business, it is often due to a lack of financial capital. People become over-extended and are unable to recover from the extreme leverage. The financial pressure becomes too great for them to handle. It is true for those who buy a house anticipating that they can somehow afford the payments, hoping for a financial miracle that does not arrive. Their ego betrayed them once again. Lack of understanding is another aspect often missing in a failed opportunity. Thorough research helps, but also getting counsel from a seasoned professional will keep you from taking a wrong turn in pursuing an opportunity. Sometimes, you simply lack the ability to complete the task. Your impatience or lack of experience will create a vacuum that cannot be filled in time to seize the opportunity. If that is the case, let it go. Forgive yourself and others who may have been involved. Then, start pursuing life again.
Are you hoarding “stuff”? Get rid of it. It represents the dead and dying aspects of the past. Are you holding on to old revelations that are no longer fresh? Pursue fresh revelation, Our Heavenly Father isn’t living in your past, HE is in the present. There were necessary spiritual movements in the past. The “faith” movement was one. It was important for the time but it did not completely mature those who were involved in the movement. It was simply another necessary revelation in the pursuit of full maturity. Progress is the key to the living. Those who stop along the way begin the decaying process. Death is the result. It is time to quit resting on your laurels and actively pursue life. But first, forgive all those unworkable aspects of your past that did not pan out. Don’t be one of those who are “pruned” away from the living.