Ideas Done Daily

Rather than waiting for a future someday when everything will magically be all better, we are called to live and work here and now to bring heaven to the literal hell that is raging all around us. Because just like the parable, the same is too often true for us, especially people in the church. We’re asleep at the wheel, we doze of assuming that we have all the time in the world. But the reality is that it’s already here. We’re not waiting for Jesus to come someday. We need to wake up and realize that Jesus is already here, embodied in the hands and feet and faces of you and me as we live and breathe and work for love and justice in our lives and in the world around us. Because this parable isn’t a commentary on the future. It’s a commentary on the present.