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The Fruit Inspector

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When I read today's reading from Luke 13:1-22, I always find myself guilty of inspecting other's fruit production instead of examining my own.

Luke 13:6-8
And he told this parable: "A 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, 'Look, 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?' And he answered him, 'Sir, 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.'"

God has had every right to cut us down, but in His mercy, He has spared us.

Matthew 3:8
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

Am I just taking up space, or am I bearing fruit to God's glory?

As I look around and start judging others, Psalms 139:9 puts me back into a more correct view of whom I should be inspecting.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!"