Getting A Hair Cut

Recently I went to get my hair cut. While I was sitting in the chair I had this thought: "The hair on my head is connected to my head and grows out of my head. How weird is that?" I know it sounds simple. Let us think about. Our hair is connected to a power source. Once, it is cut off it can never grow again apart from our head. However, new hair is produced every day. It grows because there is life in us. Getting a hair cut is like pruning a vine. Jesus gives a great picture of the ultimate spiritual haircut in John 15.

John 15:1-8
The Vine and the Branches
1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
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. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Jesus is our power source. We are the branches. If we remain in the power source, fruit will emerge from our lives. We have all the power we ever need to live a full life. We just have to remember where the power comes. When God gives us a "haircut", He is pruning us. He is cutting off what is dead so that He can produce fruit in our lives. If we are like the hair that is cut off from the source, we have no life. Hair without a power source cannot grow. Let us abide in the vine. Let us let God produce fruit through us. All He asks is that we abide in Him, and He produce through us what we cannot produce ourselves. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches. Let us abide.