Thought 300
Fruit First
Dear readers, we need to be producing fruit
before we are shooting out leaves for our own nourishment.
I once listened to a sermon by a gentleman
named Paul Duvall and the message that struck me was when he explained why
Jesus cursed the fig tree. (Check out Matthew 21:18-22Mark 11:20-25 For the
full story).
You see, fig trees bear
fruit before their leaves come out, in other words, there’s fruit before the outward
evidence of a living tree is there. He explained that the reason why Jesus
cursed the fig tree is because its leaves were out but no fruit was to be found;
therefore it symbolized, in at least one sense, the fake Christian. The fake
Christian is somebody who has the appearance (hence the leaves), but not the
results and changes (flowers and fruit) of a true relationship with Jesus
Christ.
