In Matthew 21 Jesus destroyed a fig tree saying, "Let no fruit grow on you ever again." Why? He was hungry. The tree was full of leaves but no fruit, not even any buds. A leafy but fruitless tree appears promising. It is really useless and better off cut down. In the Old Testament, the fig tree prophetically symbolized the blessings of a faithful life. Yet next to the context of Jesus’ overturning the tables at the temple, a fruitless fig tree here could symbolize a fruitless people. Like the fruitless fig tree, God’s people had shown promise but not delivered.
God is hungry for a people who will bear fruit. What kind of fruit? Faith! God wants a people who will have faith and not doubt – faith to do great things – to move mountains. How does God respond to such faith? Jesus taught us that, “whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
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