Mark 11: 12, 13, 14
And Jesus went into Jerusalem and entered the temple and when He had looked around ,surveying and observing everything, as it was already late, He went out to Bethany together with the twelve apostles.
12: On the day following , when they had come away from Bethany, He was hungry.
13: And seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to see if He could find any fruit on it(for in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves) but when He came up to it , He found nothing but leaves, for the fig season had not yet come.
14; And He said to it no one ever again shall eat fruit from you .And His disciples were listening.
In these Verses we see when the hungry Jesus saw that the fig tree did not have any fig on it,
He said to to it, “no one ever again shall eat fruit from you. Mark 11:20 tells us that next morning the fig tree completely withered. We can understand what happen here , verse 13 tells us on the fig tree fruit appears at the same time as the leaves but most fruit trees, if there are leaves, there is fruit under the leaves .When Jesus saw that it had leaves but no fruit, He cursed it because it was a phony (fake) . Where there is leaves, there is supposed to be fruit also.
Now we try to understand from these Verses, if our lives revolve around the church but we have no fruit, we are not living our faith. We can have Bible in our hand and cross in our neck, spend the lunch break sitting alone reading our Bible and listen to teachings and say Praise the Lord ! Hallelujah, “but if we don’t have time to help anybody else or even show kindness, we are like the fig tree with the leaves but no fruit. Example,
If a friend call and says, “Could you please do me a favour and watch my children for half an hour? I need to run somewhere quickly,” and we respond ” I would like to help you but I just can’t do it right now, I have plans, I’m sorry. I hope you understand.” If we could have changed our plans but were simply too selfish to do so, we are like that phony fig tree.
People with a spiritual outward appearance but no fruit are hard to get along with and never allow themselves to be inconvenienced by anybody else.
Jesus wants to see us genuine Christian, as we are same behind the scenes same thing we preach and show outwardly.
If we have leaves, we need to also have fruit. Many people which are searching for God will be watching us They will want to know Jesus like we do when they see that our fruit is real and that we are not pretenders that only look good on the outside. We will be the ambassadors for Christ that He intend us to be. Amen.
Let us pray,
Heavenly Father fill us with your love and kindness so your children can see and feel we are belong to you .
Amen
Sol Kamal