Third Sunday of Lent - March 24, 2019
Your mom tells you to eat your
vegetables. Magazines and websites tell you to get some exercise every day.
Once upon a time one of your friends may have told you an old relationship just
was not the right person for you. We often ignore other people’s good advice
and try to put off following it. When God spoke to Moses using a burning bush
as the method for delivering his message, Moses could not ignore it.
Moses went from a relatively
comfortable position tending his father-in-law’s flock to one of the great
struggles of history – leading the Israelites out of Egypt. For most of us,
God’s call is not as dramatic as it was for Moses. However, as the gospel makes
clear, God has called each of us and now
is time for us to respond. It is easy to forget that today is the day for us to heed God’s call. A busy day or a short
temper makes it easy to put off our response until tomorrow or just someday far
in the future. However, Jesus reminds us that disaster could come to any of us
at any time.
The readings set up a parallel between
the bush that burns but is not consumed and the unproductive fig tree that the
master is about to strike down. Jesus has saved the fig tree and is tending and
fertilizing the ground from which it grows. Today is the day for the fig tree
to start producing some fruit.
Q: Today, what “fruit” do you commit to
producing in response to God’s call?
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