Purging, or pruning, cuts away the superfluous stems and suckers in order to improve the quality and quantity of fruit. In our lives there are often things that hinder us in bearing fruit for Him and rob us of spiritual growth. Though this pruning by the Father may be quite painful and "grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" (Hebrews 12:11).

—Sel.