I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Matthew 7-9

Today’s passage begins with Jesus saying, “Do not judge others.”  However, just a few verses later He says, “As you can identify a tree by its fruit, you can identify a person by their actions.”  Once again we see the sort of paradox to which my college Bible professor referred.  Fortunately, we can resolve much of this conflict by looking at context.  Just after telling us not to judge others Jesus tells us that we will be judged by the standard we use to judge others.  Jesus further clarifies what He means here when He tells us to treat others as we would like them to treat us.

So much of this passage touches me in a way that I want to write more about it, but I only have so much time today.  So, I am going to tie together two last pieces (I find it interesting that I so often write about things in two in my blog).  First Jesus says that not all who call out “Lord, Lord” to Him will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  Then at the end of today’s passage He tells us to pray to the Lord of the Harvest, to God, to send more workers.  If we are praying for more workers, it should be because we are doing as much as we can and we can see that there is more work to be done.  Of course, even if we are doing as much as we can, there is more to be done.  I don’t think I am doing all of the work God has that I could be.  So, I pray that God will get me moving.