It is more of an acknowledgment... a cry for help... a prayer...
The Gardener prunes... and knows what needs to be removed... but in our growth... toward holiness... we watch... and recognize... the emotions... desires... will... which are not in agreement with His... those that lead to disobedience...
The "self-pruning" happens... sort of... when we willingly stop... resist... and cry out in prayer... Help... Father this is not a place I want to go... Help me resist...
It is in this prayer... this not falling into the desire... the emotion... recognizing the wildness erupting... and choosing to stop and pray... calling on the Father... to prune... encourage... provide strength... to die to self... that we prune... cut off... self...
Watching... resisting... praying... the self... asking for a pruning...
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
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