⁶Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. ⁷So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’ ⁸He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. ⁹If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'” Luke 13:6-9

In this parable, the gardener asks the landowner for a little more time to tend to the tree.  He was asking for a second chance.  We serve the God of second chances, a God who offers forgiveness and mercy in the midst of a society that often rejects. 

The good news of the gospel is just that – God offers us mercy, God offers us multiple second chances, so go out today with your head lifted up, feel God’s mercy and be at peace.

Pastor Bill