Lk. 13: 6-9: Just as the fig tree is given a final chance, a
period of grace, to bear fruit, so people are given time to repent and reform.
There is no space for self-complacency. Spiritual collapse is more
death-dealing then physical death because its implications are eternal. We can
direct ourselves to God or to sin. In either case we are responsible for what
we will have become.
