The Humility of Christ, the Vine“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.… I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:1 , 5
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Song of Songs 2:1
“Of all trees, I observe, God has chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar, nor the sturdy oak, nor the spreading plane, but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub—as if he would, by these choices, check the conceited arrogance of man.”
Owen Feltham
