Saturday, July 13 (June 30), 2024
Rom. 3:28-4:3; Mt. 7:24-8:4                                                     

Today’s Gospel Reading tells us that hearing the word of God and putting it into action is like building a house upon a rock; while hearing His word without actually following it is like building a house upon sand [Mt. 7:24-26].

Learn this by heart and repeat continually: this truth is clear and evident, and everyone has rich personal experience of that sort.  For instance, while you are just perceiving something in your mind, your thoughts are unstable and evasive, but as soon as you lay them out on a sheet of paper, they become solid and definite.   Likewise, any enterprise is uncertain and flexible until it gets actually started; but when you set it in motion, second thoughts are over.  So also the moral principles:  until and unless we follow them, they remain as if alien, extraneous and hazy, but when we put them into action, they get inside us, enter our heart, settle there and make a foundation of our personality ─ good or evil.  “See then that you walk circumspectly!” [Eph. 5:15].

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