Psalm 80:7 "Restore us, O God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved. 8) You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 9) You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land. 10) The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 11) It sent out its boughs to the Sea, its shoots as far as the River. 12) Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes? 13) Boars from the forest ravage it and the creatures of the field feed on it. 14) Return to us, O God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine, 15) the root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself. 16) Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish. 17) Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself. 18) Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. 19) Restore us, O LORD God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved."

I read this today and I saw myself as one of the boars who ravish the vine. Many times I don't take discipleship seriously enough and treat Jesus as a casual snack that I can pick when I choose and and also ignore when I choose. This is not the Gospel He preached however: John 5:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." When we call ourselves Christians yet don't "remain in the vine",we not only don't produce fruit, we ravage and ruin the fruit of those who do "remain in the vine".