Jesus was hungry and seeing a fig He came to seek fruit but only found leaves and cursed it.
It's unfortunate that it is true for many Christians, their lives are fruitless. When you look them at a far distance they will seem to be fruitful but looking the inner condition of their hearts, there is emptiness.
Jude 1:13 expresses it this way
...caring for themselves; CLOUDS WITHOUT WATER, carried along by winds; autumn trees WITHOUT FRUIT, DOUBLY DEAD, uprooted;
Vs 16 says their primary characteristics is complaining and taking advantage of others.
Do you complain, do you take advantage of others especially due to their weaknesses or lack of knowledge?
Phil 2:14-Do everything without complaining and arguing,
2Cor 7:2
Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF NO ONE.
If you want fruitfulness in your life, get rid of complaining and taking advantage of people. Settle matters right that need to be set right; remember that one day our whole lives will be put in a screen in the judgment day for everyone to see how we lived and what we did in our private lives, thoughts, motives and attitudes; only the parts we have repented and turned away from matters we've set right will be erased but the things we've hidden carefully from others to seek a good reputation as fruitful brothers will at that day be exposed. Don't wait for that it's time for the LORDS Mercies.
Peter expresses it this way in 2Pet 2:17-19
These are SPRINGS WITHOUT WATER and mists driven by a storm...They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception.
They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption.
For YOU ARE A SLAVE TO WHATEVER CONTROLS YOU.
2Tim 2:5
HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF GODLINESS, but denying its power which could make them truly godly. Avoid such people.
Tit 1:16
Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live...
The fruitless fig tree can represent a life of hypocrisy. But Jesus gives us time to repent but He will curse us we continue living in hypocrisy and expose us openly one day. But God desires that we deal with him privately concerning our hypocrisy and when when we acknowledge it, He will give us that power which makes us truly godly in our hearts primarily. The picture we portray outside will be the true condition of our hearts.
Jesus told the disciples if they had faith they would do what the did and even tell a mountain to move into the sea and it will happen.
And everything you pray believing, you will receive.
The mountain of fruitlessness and hypocrisy should be cast into the sea never to be seen again in our lives; pray that God will make your inner life the same as the life you show others on the outside. Pray believing and God will deliver you from a life of hypocrisy and barrenness.
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