Regrafting

My father did some grafting in his garden when I was young. Grafting is either taking part of one organism and making it grow in another place on the same organism, or taking part of one organism and making it grow as part of another organism.

Some real examples are: skin from part of your body so no one would notice a funny scar, being moved to cover another part that had been burned badly; taking a branch of one camellia bush and making it grow on another camellia bush, producing a flower that looks different from either original; taking a branch from a grape vine that produces big not so sweet grapes and making it grow on a grape vine that produces small very sweet grapes, hoping that it will start producing big, sweet grapes; Jews or gentiles becoming believers in Jesus, and being grafted into Him as limbs through whom He can bear fruit in the earth.

If there is not enough injury to the two organisms in a grafting process to allow sufficient nutritional transfer into the part that is grafted in or on, it won’t do well. The grafted in portion has to stay connected, too. If it keeps trying to disconnect from the cost of the process, it won’t be productive.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.”

(John 15:5-8  from Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)