erusalem like an unfruitful vine.

- If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. But if not fruitful, it is worthless and useless, it is cast into the fire. Thus man is capable of yielding a precious fruit, in living to God; this is the sole end of his existence; and if he fails in this, he is of no use but to be destroyed. What blindness then attaches to those who live in the total neglect of God and of true religion! This similitude is applied to Jerusalem. Let us beware of an unfruitful profession. Let us come to Christ, and seek to abide in him, and to have his words abide in us.

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue the Book of Ezekiel with Chapter 15. In our text today we see Jerusalem is stated as a useless vine because of its sin it produces no fruit and is only good for the fire. In making application we see that when we are saved we are engrafted in the vine of Jesus-Christ and if we allow Him to live in us He will produce fruit through the vine. If we fill our lives with sin though we will make ourselves as vines useless and like Jerusalem here good for nothing. How about you? Are you a useful vine? Let us learn from our text today to see that as children of God our decisions to sin or obey God will affect the fruit in our lives making us Good Vines or Vines that are Useless.