"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. (Mark 11:22)
Hearing Peter’s report of a withering fig tree, Jesus said unexpectedly, “Have faith in God.” What relationship does it have between a withered fig tree that had cursed in the morning and withered in the evening and the matter of having faith in God?
The answer was given by yesterday’s meditation. A fig tree signifies Israel. They didn’t bear fruit. They didn’t believe God truthfully. Such Israel was not different from a withered fig tree and they would be thrown into the same destiny. Does it really right diagnosis?
Israel was the truest nation to believe God at view of the Bible history. They thought they were the people chosen by God. Practically their religious tradition was peerless. The spiritual inheritances to mankind also are marvelous. The Sabbath system and prophet’s spirituality are incomparably great.
However it cannot be an index of faith. On the contrary, the more such things they have the lesser possibility would be having faith in God. Ironically, there are many cases of lacking of the power of faith despite glittering outer shape. In those days Israel’s religion already had fossilized and became to lose its life. The Sabbath day that should give life to the people rather operated as an absolute regulation which was nothing related to life. Under such status, faith couldn’t but be chocked.
It had happened to Israel for they didn’t think the fact seriously that there were not much relation between a religious activity and the faith toward God. It can be applied to us today too. So do we too live without much concern on God by indulging our various faith programs?
Hearing Peter’s report of a withering fig tree, Jesus said unexpectedly, “Have faith in God.” What relationship does it have between a withered fig tree that had cursed in the morning and withered in the evening and the matter of having faith in God?
The answer was given by yesterday’s meditation. A fig tree signifies Israel. They didn’t bear fruit. They didn’t believe God truthfully. Such Israel was not different from a withered fig tree and they would be thrown into the same destiny. Does it really right diagnosis?
Israel was the truest nation to believe God at view of the Bible history. They thought they were the people chosen by God. Practically their religious tradition was peerless. The spiritual inheritances to mankind also are marvelous. The Sabbath system and prophet’s spirituality are incomparably great.
However it cannot be an index of faith. On the contrary, the more such things they have the lesser possibility would be having faith in God. Ironically, there are many cases of lacking of the power of faith despite glittering outer shape. In those days Israel’s religion already had fossilized and became to lose its life. The Sabbath day that should give life to the people rather operated as an absolute regulation which was nothing related to life. Under such status, faith couldn’t but be chocked.
It had happened to Israel for they didn’t think the fact seriously that there were not much relation between a religious activity and the faith toward God. It can be applied to us today too. So do we too live without much concern on God by indulging our various faith programs?
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