And The Lord Said

7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?' 

8 But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 

9And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.' "

 

Jesus is our Lord and as we also know and believe, our savior. We are all like the fig tree, we take up our place in life. Planted in fertile ground, faith being the ground. The Lord God looks at us and we either bear fruit in our lives or we do not. Instead of ripping us from the ground and destroying this useless tree, God through His wondrous grace, allows us more time to become fruitful. We have been fertilized by the gospel of Christ. In Him we have hope and the truth of our salvation from being cut down and destroyed. We have the promise of life, not just life, but everlasting life. Life eternal with our Lord.

All who come to Jesus can and will be saved. We are all aware that everyone has sinned in the sight of God where nothing is hidden. God knows the hearts of men and so we can hide nothing from Him. This being said, only our repentance and belief in His Son can deliver us from our sins. There is nothing any of us have done in our lives that God will not forgive, with the exception of the one unforgiveable sin. Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit is that sin. We cannot attribute the Holy Work of God to the devil, or we are in that sin. 

Many people are walking this earth and living a life of unhappiness due to feelings of guilt brought on by sin. Some are even Christians who hold onto their past instead of releasing it as forgiven. This should not be as we are forgiven by the Lord God through Jesus Christ. Those who have not heard this truth are wandering around in a guilt riddled mind and full of hopelessness. Again, this does not have to be. Jesus made a full atonement for all who have sinned, and has provided the way to reconciliation to our God. All we have to do is claim it. Then believe it through faith. 

The Lord God has made the way to Him so simple and easy that most cannot accept this reality. Never -the less it is certainly real. More real than anything else in our lives. Jesus is the way, and the only way to salvation. He is the ultimate truth as His words were the words of God. He is the life as He died and arose again to show the power and promise of God to be real. Not only to those who followed Him, but to a great many others as well. That death is not a finality with Him, but only a doorway to eternity. He can and will provide everlasting life by the loving grace of God.

Jesus, while He walked on the earth, performed many miracles that were seen by multitudes. Some were even recorded by the scribes of those times. Jesus caused the great civilizations of the time to take notice. This was all done by the Lord God through His Son. God the father, creator of all that is, spoke His words to us through the man Jesus. Preformed His miracles through the man Jesus and comforted us through the man Jesus. He also provided the way to redemption through the man Jesus. 

Jesus was both man and God. We are not made to understand how this can be. We are not made to understand all there is to know about God and His ways. We are to have faith in His word and believe His truth.  We are allowed to feel His Godly protection in us. We have been blessed to receive Him in our life and body through the Holy Spirit. Jesus the man, was honored by the Father by being placed at the right hand of God and given all power in heaven and on earth. So complete understanding is not required, only belief and obedience. That is enough for God, it should be enough for us.

Jesus, as when He was on the earth, obeys the Father. He completes the promises of God. He will never leave or fail anyone who comes to Him. He will not turn away anyone who seeks Him. He will fulfill all the promises He made in the Bible. We are to trust in the word of God. To have faith in His word and obey Him. I know this sounds too easy given the Old Testament Laws from God. But as the seasons pass, so does the Old way pass to the New. The New Testament was and is a new covenant with God. All who call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus, will be saved. What a great blessing and show of God’s grace and love.

So we have been given time in our lives, just as the fig tree. We have been offered fertilizer in the form of His Word in the bible. We must decide to bear fruit or wither away. We have the grace of God to sustain us and His guidance to lead us. We can live in His love while we are still on this earth we can bear fruit in the way we live and speak. We are capable of being fruitful by way of the Holy Spirit. We listen to God through Him and become fruitful as we walk in His commandments.  All of us are called to be Christ like in our actions and devotion to the Lord. Obey the Lord and live in His blessings. Share those with all you meet and see the difference you can make in life. We are called to spread the gospel of salvation and repentance. The all forgiving grace of God for anyone who desires it. Always remembering that no one is any better than anyone else. The Lord teaches that we should not think more of us than we really are. Your forgiveness as well as mine is all encompassing and makes us righteous in the sight of God. If we were to be able to see ourselves we would see a world of some of the filthiest creatures. But after grace, God sees us as perfect. That is the love of God. That is the promise of our Lord and our salvation. We are forever clean and forgiven, a new life, a new body made perfect before the Lord. May the peace of God be with you all, and may His abundant love fill you. AMEN.