Some who were present on that occasion told Jesus about the Galileans whom Pilate had killed while they were offering sacrifices. He replied, “Do you think the suffering of these Galileans proves that they were more sinful than all the other Galileans? No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did. What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think that they were more guilty of wrongdoing than everyone else who lives in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did.” Jesus told this parable: “A man owned a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none. He said to his gardener, ‘Look, I’ve come looking for fruit on this fig tree for the past three years, and I’ve never found any. Cut it down! Why should it continue depleting the soil’s nutrients?’ The gardener responded, ‘Lord, give it one more year, and I will dig around it and give it fertilizer. Maybe it will produce fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.’” (Luke 13:1-9, CEB)
Change isn’t something you just get out of a vending machine.
And when we talk about turning our lives around, completely reorienting our lives to Jesus that is the thing that points us to love.
No one is any more sinful than the next. We are all hopeless, and yet redeemed.
When we focus our lives on Jesus and work to live and love the way he did, we will change our hearts and point our lives toward God and that will give the world hope.
Mercy, grace and love flow from God. Let these also flow from you.
Loving People. Loving God.
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