The figurative fig tree withered. Now it's on us. We're called to produce the “fruits of the Spirit,” things like love, goodness and self-control. Will we now heed God's call?

The figurative fig tree withered. Now it’s on us. We’re called to produce the “fruits of the Spirit,” things like love, goodness and self-control. Will we now heed God’s call?

Peter, in particular, called Jesus' attention to it. saying, “Master, behold the fig tree which Thou cursedst is withered away!” (Mark, xi., 21.) THE LESSON TAUGHT.

My Bible helps explains that if we only appear to have faith without putting it to work in our lives, we are like the fig tree that withered and died because it bore no fruit.

The figurative fig tree withered. Now it’s on us. We’re called to produce the “fruits of the Spirit,” things like love, goodness and self-control. Will we now heed God’s call?