Writers use show and tell to unravel stories. During Jesus’ earthly ministry He showed spiritual truths through parables, healings, and example. On one particular morning, while walking in Bethany with the twelve, He became hungry and stopped at a green-leafed fig tree beside the road. But the limbs were fruitless.
 
The Bible tells how God talks to animals, the wind, and the waves. Today he talked to a tree.
 
Mark 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.” And his disciples heard it.
 
The next morning they passed the same tree. “Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away,” Peter said.
 
“Have faith in God,” Jesus replied. He showed them that faith brings change and even moves mountains. Then he said the following:
 
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.

John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
 
The problem today is that people don’t know the truth. Our country has strayed from the truth. Satan has made it his job to tell us everything but the truth because he doesn’t want us to be made free in Christ Jesus.
 
John 14:1 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him; but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
 
As a child of God, the Spirit of truth is in you and me. It will reprove us when we are doing wrong. We need to listen for it. Some people call it that small voice. The Spirit gives us a desire – longing – to be like Christ. It wasn’t there before receiving Christ as our Savior.
 
Do we seek the truth in our daily life or are we living a lie? Stay in His word. If you have a question, seek out the truth. He will lead you to the answer.

People of the fourth generation after the flood spoke one language. No barriers could stop their imagination and what they might do. They decided to build a tower to heaven and make a name for themselves. Only faith -- not works -- will get you to heaven. 
 
God watched.
 
With clay, sand, and straw, they made bricks and spread slime for mortar, raising the first skyscraper toward the clouds.
 
“That’s enough,” God said as He changed their language so they couldn't understand each other. The project took a dive. What a miracle! God could’ve struck them all dead, but they wouldn't have seen His almighty poer. The Lord called the place the Tower of Babel (confusion) and scattered them abroad.
 
Today there are over 3,000 languages. Only one will be spoken in heaven. Do you ever wonder what God thinks when he pays attention to what you say, where you go, and what you do?  Whenever you decide to take things in your own hands without God, you are like these people who built the tower. Watch out.

Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
GOD LEADS US ALONG by George A. Young, 1903
 
Though sorrows befall us and evils oppose,
God leads His dear children along;
Through grace we can conquer, defeat all our foes,
God leads his dear children along.
 
Some through the waters, some through the flood,
Some through the fire, but all through the blood;
Some through great sorrow, but God Gives a song,
In the night season and all the day long.