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Mark < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>11:12-14, 1 Peter 1:13-21

Whenever your attractiveness fails to interact with the Creator, the reaction of the Creator will activate His action against you. The fig tree must have been the only tree around that was mouth watering. Its leaves were an indication that its fruit was mouth filling and stomach embracing. It was not true in the spirit, neither was it true in the physical when productivity was required of the fig tree. Jesus created the fig tree for a purpose. The fig tree was not created for eye-pleasing. It was not created for looking good in the congregation of trees, neither was it created for just attraction and crowd pleasing. Mark 11:13, ÒAnd seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the seasons for figs.Ó All of JesusÕ action, reaction, moves and words are communication for the people at His time and for the ones that were to come later before His second coming. How much attention are you paying to the word of God? He was not just displaying His power when He approached the unfruitful fig tree by virtue of the invitation of the fig tree through its leaves; Jesus was communicating a message through the demonstration of power. Christianity is not just about adornment and Sunday-noise-making. Christianity is about Jesus reality, and Jesus reality is fruitfulness. Do not let your adornment be merely outward by the arrangement of hair, the wearing of gold, or putting on fine apparel. Avoid being side attractions; all that Jesus wants to see in you is fruitfulness. Ask Him to deliver you from religion into Jesus reality.