6-7 Then he told them a story: “A man had an apple tree planted in his front yard. He came to it expecting to find apples, but there weren’t any. He said to his gardener, ‘What’s going on here? For three years now I’ve come to this tree expecting apples and not one apple have I found. Chop it down! Why waste good ground with it any longer?’
8-9 “The gardener said, ‘Let’s give it another year. I’ll dig around it and fertilize, and maybe it will produce next year; if it doesn’t, then chop it down.’”
Whatever else this parable is about, it is about grace - God’s grace.
We have only once place to stand in this parable - we are the barren fig tree. And the meaning is that no matter what, God is first, last and always a God of grace; “whose love will over rule his anger and whose mercy is stronger then her logic.”
"Praise God! Everything doesn't happen for a reason. Shout hallelujah! What goes around doesn't come around. The holy gardener looks on the unfruitfulness of the church and the unfruitfulness of the world and says,
it's not a lost case yet. Let's give it another chance.” E. Susan Bond
Amen! And again I say, AMEN!
“God never lets us go;
God never lets us down;
God never lets us off.”
John A. Redhead'
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, thanks for giving me another chance,
and another, and another, until by your grace I do get it right.”
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