*God, Father, your son enters Jerusalem to the singing of Hosanna. Hosanna means to urge you for deliverance. That was surely what they needed and we as well; all day every day. He then cleaned house. That would be a good start to anyone’s day; clean our room and put everything in order. He then left and spent the night with friends. Another good idea, spend time with friends. Then he returned to his work the next day and on the way, he was hungry for breakfast, saw a fig tree, went to get a fig and it didn’t have any so he cursed it and it immediately died. This is so aligned with Your/His teaching of bearing fruit. But it did seem sorta radical. But as I thought on this I thought about how the Bible teaches that You know every star by name. I imagine there are a lot more stars than trees. It wouldn’t be beyond the realm of imagination to think Jesus knew this tree well and it had always been a slacker, a non-believing tree, a tree that took all of Christ’s goodness, soil, rain, and sunshine but never produced a crop. So Christ did what the tree asked for, it can go its own way. And the parable is that our own way leads only to death.
His disciples then said, “wow how did that tree die so quick?” This story is like a fairy tale but then all of the Bible, everything we know about You is a great, the greatest Fairy Tale; because it is true.
I had better be bearing fruit!
Hosanna, please deliver me to a fruit-bearing life!
*Thoughts on Matthew 20-22
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| Hubble image of stars Teddy, Freddy, Eddie, Betty...wouldn't it be great if God named them all in rhyming verse. |
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