I've been coming to look for fruit...
Home “ Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down. ” [Luke 13:8-9] "For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit..." I t is not difficult to identify the fig tree as Israel, planted in God’s vineyard, that is, the world. God looked for fruit on the tree but He found none. So He said to the vinedresser (the Lord Jesus) that He had sought in vain for fruit from the tree for three years. The simplest interpretation of this refers it to the first three years of our Lord’s public ministry. The thought of the passage is that the fig tree had been given sufficient time to produce fruit, if it was ever going to do so. If no fruit appeared in three years, then it was reasonable to conclude that none would ever appear. Because of the fruitlessness, God ordered to cut it down. It was only occ...