Fruit Requires Fertilizer
Having a đ© week?
Hereâs hope. Jesus told a parable in Luke 13 about a fruit tree with no fruit. The owner told his gardener to cut it down, itâs wasting space, but the gardener asked to give it one more chance. âLet me dig around it and put some manure on it and see what happens.â
If youâre in a season that feels like everything you hold dear has been dug up, pulled out, and pruned off – then topped with a steaming shovel full of manure – thereâs fruit in that.
Grow deep, friend, and donât give up.
Your Gardener is near.
The Parable of the Barren Fig* Tree
And he told this parable: âA man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, âLook, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?â And he answered him, âSir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.ââ Luke 13:6-9
* I know the featured image and the graphic are lemons, not figs, but I took the photo of a lemon arbor in Sorrento, Italy – and there are no fig emojis đ
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