The Olive Press and you

The Olive Press and you
Shaudonna Bryant·Thursday, April 14, 2016
I've been obsessed with Olives and Olive oil. (Isaiah 53:10) tells Jesus was crushed.I have been researching the process of how the olive becomes olive oil. Olives grow in trees. So to harvest olives the tree is shaken. To me this represents how God shakes the spirit to get our attention. The olives are then sent thru the cleaning process to remove all that is impure. This is what the blood of Jesus does for us. Just like the olives have to go thru the same entrance to be cleaned. We all must come thru Jesus. Next is the grinding. The whole olive is grinded into paste. This is so all the flesh of the olive is torn so the oil can be released. This for us means dying to ourselves. This is what is meant by take up your cross deny yourself and follow me (Luke 9:23). The next stage is mixing the paste for 20 to 45 minutes. The mixing unifies the small drops of oil with the rest of the oil with bigger drops so the oil can be made one. This is the coming together of the body of Christ under one savior one anointing. (1Cor 12:12-13,20 and Eph 4:4) The final stage is separation. This why the bible says we many are called by few are chosen.(Matt 20:16, Matt 22:14) This process separates the virgin olive oil from the extra virgin oil because the process is longer for the extra virgin oil. If you want to be extra then you must be stirred again. What grade oil do you want to be? Coming back to the separation. The oil is separated and sent one way while the paste is sent another direction to be composted or thrown away. God is big on us standing out. 1 Pet 2:9 tells we are a holy nation. 2 Corinthians 6:14 asks us what relationship light has with darkness. 1 Pet 1:16 tells Because I am holy you must be holy. And Revelations tells the answer to 2 Corinthians 6:1. Revelations says Let he who is righteous be righteous still and Let he who filthy be filthy still. The trials we go through are for our benefit. Because if we didn't go through the process we can be what God intends to bless others with. We must be absorbed in God so the Holy Spirit can pour from us and reveal Christ Jesus in us our hope of Glory. Jesus I love you thank you for being our example and going through the process for us and with us.