Saturday, 10/27/12
In Our Lord’s parable the fig tree that bore little or no
fruit could stand for you or me. It would, if in spite of our good families and
fine educations we have
contributed very little to the welfare of God’s people. Perhaps you and
I are on that extra year of trial, and if we don’t do some real good this years
God will do away with us.
It is unfortunate that our English language Bibles quote
Jesus as saying, “If you do not
repent you will all perish.” To repent mans to blame yourself for past
failings, and that was not what Jesus said we had to do. The word the St. Luke
used for what Jesus said was metanloia, which
means “turn one’s thinking around.” As Our Lord tells us in his parable about the fig tree, he was not
asking us to weep over our past failings, no, he was telling us to turn lour
lives around to do better in the future.
No comments:
Post a Comment