Let's Just Hold On Until Jesus Comes

It often seems to me like the church in our day has gotten to the place where we are so confused about what to do that we have decided to do nothing.  We have given up on the political process because we have been burned.  We have given up on culture battles because we have made so little progress.  We feel like if we share our opinion we are labeled as haters and misunderstood.  

But Jesus reminds us in his parable about three servants who are given money to invest that the one servant who did nothing with what was given to him was the servant that the king reprimanded.  

Matthew 25:24-27  “Then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a harsh man, harvesting crops you didn’t plant and gathering crops you didn’t cultivate. 25 I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back.’

26 “But the master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! If you knew I harvested crops I didn’t plant and gathered crops I didn’t cultivate,27 why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’

So doing nothing with all that God has blessed us with is seen by God as being wicked and lazy.  Not just lazy!  Wicked.  

Of course the good news is that in the same chapter we are informed of what to do when you don't know what to do.  Serve other people and especially serve those people around you who need help and are marginalized by society.  

“And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’  (Matthew 25:40)