Good morning spiritual family,
Listen carefully:
And He told this parable:
"A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
He told the vineyard worker,
'Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any.
Cut it down!
Why should it even waste the soil? ’
But he replied to him,
'Sir, leave it this year also,
until I dig around it and fertilize it.”
Luke 13:6-8
This is our year. Right now. We have received fertilization in our hearts because we believed in Jesus.
When the fig tree wasn't producing fruit a mediator stepped in and said let me do something with it (fertilize it) and if it still does not produce fruit then by natural reasoning let it be cut down (what's the point of a fig tree that does not produce figs? Answer: no point at all.)
How many of us have received the fertilization of the Spirit of God in our hearts and are cooperating with Christ in us to produce the fruits of the Spirit? (Galatians 5:22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control.)
We, like the fig tree, were made to image our God. That is our point in life, to point to God. Without our point we become...yes...pointless.
God is always doing something in us and around us for the purpose of helping us bear this good fruit. To be fertile is not the same thing as producing fruit. If fertilized soil never implants a seed or receives water then it had an opportunity to produce fruit yet did not. Yet without being fertilized no seed or water received could ever grow. So Christ has died to give us the fertilization in our hearts, and it is our job to do with that what we can. Now what can we do? Or what are we supposed to do? This is also an important question.
“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.”
Luke 16:3
The parable of the shrewd steward reminds us to think realistically. What CAN WE do?! Well, it has less to do with doing things, and more to do with having a heart of desperation. The answer is, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.
This is a matter of life and death. If we waste what Jesus died to give us, we only waste our own lives. There is life for those who know how precious the blood of Jesus truly is because we were all once on our way to death, and Jesus stepped in and gave us a new opportunity. Now we may not feel strong enough or bold enough, but there is always something available for those who desperately seek to lay hold of what Jesus has given them!
Let those who have ears hear!
Love you guys.
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