Meditation on a fig tree

The production of leaves cannot hide a fatal lack of fruit | Andrée Seu

Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images

Jesus cursed a fig tree. This will already not go over big with the Earth Liberation Front. But worse, he cursed the fig tree though "it was not the season for figs" (Mark 11:13).

Don't worry. Help is on the way. We may yet save the Savior's reputation! Isn't it funny how we are constantly rescuing God from embarrassing discrepancies, as information comes to light aborting our chronic readiness to defect? Remember the time no one thought King Sargon existed, because the Bible was the only place that mentioned him (Isaiah 20:1)? Then archaeologists discovered his palace at Khorsabad, and now he's one of the best-known Assyrian kings. Apologies please?

Or the time they thought the mention of a tunnel built by Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:20) was poppycock? And now if you visit Jerusalem you can walk through all 1,749 feet of it, and admire the feat of the king who brought water from the hidden spring of Gihon outside the city to the pool of Siloam inside.