Crushing
Imabong Faminu@imabongfaminu
7 months ago
The Crushing is a book by renowned Pastor T. D. Jakes of The Potters House in Dallas, Texas.
In his book Pastor Jakes uses his and others life experiences to drive home the point that sometimes, God is ‘crushing’ us to get the best out of us.
It is not always misfortune, consequences of wrong doing, demonic or otherworldly activities. Sometimes, it is God using the medium of life, pain, adversity, tumult, turmoil, sorrow and so on to tutor, train and school us for the future He has prepared for us
He explains this phenomenon using the symbolism of the vine - the planting, nurturing, pruning, growth, harvesting, crushing, straining and fermentation of grapes to produce wine
He posits that if grapes could express themselves they would also feel attacked and broken by the process of being tended and nurtured into beautiful grapefruit and then suddenly being crushed into pulp and strained to produce grape juice which will still be fermented to produce fine quality wine
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