Grafted to the right Tree

         In order to bear fruit, you need to make sure you're grafted onto the right tree. Romans 11 says, "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" "Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." This is talking about God's choosing to allow Gentiles to partake of His salvation, as well as the Jews. Israel was God's chosen nation, but when they rejected God's Son, Jesus and His followers went the other nations with the Gospel. "...the branches be broken off, and thou...wert grafted in among them...".

       Grafting is when a cut is made on a tree and a branch from another tree is bound tightly to that spot so the two will grow together and become as one. We can now receive nourishment from Christ and His Word. But we have to allow ourselves to be "grafted" into Christ by asking forgiveness for sin and believing that Christ is the only way to Heaven and that He died to take us there. Are you able to partake of the "root and fatness of the olive tree"? Have you received Christ alone?