✨ ✨ “The Lofty Vineyard”
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨
“The Lofty Vineyard”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
This is the story of a woman who did all the “right things.”
She attended every meeting.
She ministered.
She paid tithing.
She served.
She checked all the boxes.
And yet, after years of labor, she realized she was no closer to Jesus than when she had begun.
Her prayers felt like they were hitting a brass ceiling. Her service was abundant but unfocused. Her fruit cumbered the tree, but the Master could taste none of it that was good.
That woman was me.
🔥 My Reflection
For years I treated Jesus like a janitor — someone who came out only when there was a mess too big for me to clean up. But He wasn’t meant to be the janitor of my life. He was meant to be my life.
I realized I had lived like Israel of old — trusting in ordinances and works as the end goal, instead of seeing them as symbols pointing to Christ. Like Zenos’ vineyard, I had become a lofty tree, branches heavy with fruit… but fruit the Lord could not lay up against the season.
What I thought was righteousness was often just “crayon-box organizing” — busying myself with good things while ignoring the one thing the Spirit had actually asked me to do.
The Lord doesn’t want branches taking strength unto themselves. He wants branches rooted in Him. He is the True Vine.
🕊️ The Invitation
Begin again with the Atonement. Get on your knees. Repent. Praise. Worship.
Let Him show you where you’ve been blocking the conduit of heaven. Clear the beaver dams of sin and unbelief.
Stop letting Christ blur in the background of your camera frame. Refocus the lens on Him alone.
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Jacob 5:30–37 — “The loftiness of thy vineyard… branches grew faster than the roots.”
Matthew 7:21–23 — “I never knew you… depart from me.”
John 15:1–8 — “I am the true vine… without me ye can do nothing.”
Ether 12:38–41 — Moroni’s plea: “Seek this Jesus.”
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