"...it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down." - Luke 13:9
Like the fig tree in today's Gospel, we've had ample opportunities to bear fruit. Through our baptism, we are "planted" into a ground that is rich with the love of God and fertilized by the His Word and His people. We are fed through reading the Bible and by participating in educational programs and prayer groups which encourage us to grow in our faith, and every day we are given the opportunity to bear fruit through any of the dozens of ministries that are available to us. But we are living on borrowed time. Every day we put off getting involved in our community; every time we fail to provide any of the corporal or spiritual works of mercy to which we are called by our baptism, we are one step closer to the axe. Don't wait to be cut down.
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