You and I serve a God of second chances. He wants all of us to succeed, to live with Him eternally. It is important that none of us refuse the opportunities which He extends to us.
“A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. 7 And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered and said to him, ‘Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer; 9 and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.'” (Luke 13:6-9)
On the day that Jesus told this parable He had been criticizing the people for not discerning or analyzing the present time. In Luke 12:57 He asked them,
“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?
Suddenly, some who were there that day shared with Jesus a tragedy which had recently occurred:
- No doubt it was the “talk of the town.”
- Had there been a news service it would have made the early edition of the paper or the breaking news at six o’clock.
- Social media would have been filled with videos of the tragedy.
It is this report which ultimately results in the parable of the barren fig tree and the lessons which it teaches us even today about our God who offers us second chances.
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