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“Lord, please leave it as it is this year also.”           “Then He told this parable: A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the soil?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down’” (Luke 13:6–9).       (1)    Today I would like to meditate on the lesson given through Jesus’ words in Luke 13:6–9, the parable of the barren fig tree, under the title: “Lord, please leave it as it is this year also.”   (a)     First, I became curious about the connection between this parable in Luke 13:6–9 and the passage I meditated on yesterday morning, Luke 13:1...