Comments on: Me and Jesus | Same Peas in a Pod

By: Sheryl R. Helms

Sheryl R. Helms — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:50:23 +0000

Ha Ha.

By: James M. Helms

James M. Helms — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:27:56 +0000

Sheryl, do you really think that I could put up with two of you?

By: Sheryl R. Helms

Sheryl R. Helms — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:20:14 +0000

Does “favorite” imply there’s more? James, is there something you’re not telling me?

By: Cherie Melton

Cherie Melton — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:02:33 +0000

James, I’d feel REALLY bad afterwards though, if that makes you feel any better-YFMIL (Your Favorite Mother-in-law).

By: Sheryl R. Helms

Sheryl R. Helms — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:14:21 +0000

That’s right, buddy, you’d have 10,000 daggers stuck to the back of your head! Anyway, I think it would be cool to make the tree grow fruit instead of wither it. All that aside, I like this passage because it shows that Jesus had human emotions. He was hungry, he was irritable, he knew he had a tough week coming up and he was angry that, as mom said, there should have been more “fruit” than what He was seeing, not just a “leafy show”. Many times my irritability is justified, I just need to learn to handle it the way Jesus would. If I had the power He did, every time I got irritable there would be poofs of smoke and charred skeletons in my wake!

By: James M. Helms

James M. Helms — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:45:55 +0000

Looking past the deeper story ( )we see that Jesus was physically hungry. That’s why he initially approached the fig tree. He did use it as an object lesson, I’m sure he did. He physically withered the tree and though it was symbolic it was also a physical reaction because the tree didn’t have any fruit to feed him. I’m just sayin!
Yes, if God granted you the ability to whither your son in law…my outlook, not so good…I can’t even count how many times I would have been done over by Sheryl…yikes.

By: Cherie Melton

Cherie Melton — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:30:48 +0000

Well, that is certainly a different spin on a very difficult verse. To see the act as an expression of the human side of Jesus is sort of applealing, but. . . Jesus rarely did things without a reason or a lesson, there was some symbolism here, the Jewish nation who had been given everything and at the time they should have been bearing fruit (welcoming and recieving the Messiah), was all just leafy show, the Gentiles (us), are now the fig tree and hopefully we are producing fruit-something like that any way.
Also, if we did have the faith required to whither figs trees at a glance just because we were peeved, imagine what a whithering glance from your wife or favorite moter-in-law might do to you, hmmm. . .