Unripe Berries
To be mindful of Me means to fill your being with only one desire . . . Me. Those who do not really want to be set free from their chains are not mindful of Me. As soon as their suffering eases a little they fill their desires with interests, pleasures, connections, and plans of their old life that was without Me. Do not force them to drop all and follow Me. They are unripe berries. Unripe berries do not fall easily into the picker’s hand. They still cling to the branch of their old life. Ripe berries are happy to release that branch and fall into My Hand. Unripe berries have a sour taste to all who desire to eat of Me. Mark 2:22 No one puts new wine into old wine skins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wine skins. Mark 8:35 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. John 12:25 He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.