Passion Week: Holy Tuesday

Activity: Get an apple. 

With your parent's permission, eat it all the way to the core to get to the seeds. If your parent wants to help you, they can cut an apple in half and help you get the seeds out. How many did you find? In every apple there are up to 5 seeds. Plant one and you get a...drum roll, please...an apple tree! An apple tree grows apples that produces fruit, that produces seeds, that grows into plants that make more apples...the cycle continues. 

Now on Monday,

 before Jesus went to clean house, He saw a fig tree in the distance, now watch...

The tree looked good from a distance but it didn't produce fruit. 

So as a lesson to His disciples, He curse it and when they came back by on Tuesday, on His way to go teach in the Temple, they passed the fig tree and it had died in one days time! This was a lesson to the disciples that looking good wasn't good enough. He wanted His disciples to bear fruit, no matter how small.

So Jesus wants his disciples to produce fruit for Him. He doesn't want us to just look good, He wants us fill us with His Spirit so people will see Jesus in us. He wants us to start with the basics: Love, for "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:35...and the rest of the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) will follow drawing others to Him though our lives.

So as Jesus stood in the Temple teaching throughout that Tuesday, once again the scent of the nard filled the space around Him. You couldn't help but know you were in Jesus' presence. And if you live out His love, people will know YOU are still in His presence today 😊