Jacob 5
I am interested in the relationship between the Lord and His servant. The servant Has an interest in the project, desiring the survival of the tree just as the Lord does although with a different degree of experience, authority, and perspective than the Lord. His separate perspective allows him to offer suggestions and a personal point of view which the Lord accepts as a partner rather than condescendingly dismissing because his own wisdom is greater. In other words they are working together, not simply working on the same project.
I notice that every change (grafting the wild branches into the tame root, planting the game branches in other parts of the vineyard, and grafting the natural branches back into the mother tree) has the initial effect of producing good fruit but eventually devolves into producing bad fruit (although the parable ends with only the suggestion that this will eventually be the case for the grafting of the natural branches back into their mother tree). I had failed to notice that in the end the Lord has many trees producing good fruit where he had started with only one tree that was not wild.
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