Doing God's Will...Not Just Talking About It

From my confessor Father Jboy's blog (his homily on yesterday's Gospel on the two sons and their two responses). One of the saddest things is that many of us dyed-in-the-wool Christians spend too much time reflecting and preaching and proselytizing without actually acting upon the words we say.

"The question of Jesus about who among them eventually does God’s will gives us an insight on what is ultimately important: doing God’s will. It is the importance accorded to action over plans and resolutions written on paper. The teaching of Jesus is primarily meant to be lived out, to be put into action. Reflections are useful only when it is carried on in reality. It is therefore not enough to make new resolutions or promises, to put beautiful projects on documents, or to memorize the Church’s encyclicals. Without action, all these words are plain fiction. In the Season of Advent, we are asked to look back and focus on the promises we broke, the resolutions we left on paper, and the commitments we left undone. And then put all of them into motion."