Mark 11:11-26
Today’s gospel reading, we have this interesting story
about Jesus cursing the fig tree. It seems that He is becoming unreasonable in
expecting a fig tree to bear fruit when it is not yet the time for it to have
fruit.
No doubt that there is a deeper meaning here. The cursing of
the tree is immediately followed by His entering the Temple area where He
expects to find people “busy about His Father’s affairs.” But instead He finds
them occupied with worldly activity and often fraudulent and unjust activity.
Cursing the fig tree and cleansing the temple of merchants
are so closely connected and Jesus is actually calling us to bear fruit in our
prayer. In other words, if we come into God’s house and we are not praying, but
turning it into a den of thieves we are not bearing fruit. And if there is no
fruit, the Lord is going to curse us, just as He does with the fig tree and
drives the merchants out from the temple.
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