If you haven’t read the Gospel for today (Matthew 7: 21, 24-27), do so. Our Lord is essentially saying to us, “Once you have heard the Gospel proclaimed and heared the Word preached, you have to do something. You can’t let it sit for if you do, you are the most foolish of all.”
To hear the Gospel, and then do nothing, is like being given a precious gem and letting it drop to the ground, trampling it underfoot and saying, “O well! I will come back tomorrow and God will give me another.”
No! God expects us to do something and do it today. The roots of our faith are in deeds of love. We must hear and respond.
In another place in the Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of giving gold coins to his servants and expecting them to do something with them other than lock them up and hide them. If you recall, he had some harsh words to the servant who took the coin but buried it without a return.
Let us this day do something with the Word of God which is so readily available to us.
Read the Scriptures – and then do something. Today.
