Watch is an action word. How are we watching? How should we be watching?
Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
In Matthew 25 we find Jesus teaching of “Watch”. The wise virgins took oil in their lamps. The wise servants used the talents they were given to further the Masters kingdom.
Matthew 25:3-4 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew 25:16-17 Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents, and like wise he who had received two gained two more also.
What is the watch, the work we were given to bring oil in our lamps and to use our talents?
Matthew 25:34-36 Then the king will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
Luke 6:46 But why do you call Me, “Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Will we say, ‘Lord, Lord or Jesus, Jesus,’ and then act as though we do not know Him? Will we humbly draw near to Him to follow in His ways?
James 1:22-24 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
1 John 2:4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Will we bear fruit for God’s kingdom? Will we watch that we may help those along the way see Jesus not only in our words but in our actions?
