Learn To Do Good

‘Cease doing evil; learn to do good.’

That is certainly very simple, very basic advice.  Yet, we do need to be reminded of it every so often.

There is a family I know who have five teen-aged children.  Every so often, the mother calls what she refers to as a ‘reality check’.  She and her husband get everyone together to make plain the rules of the house, and the expectations of mutual family responsibility and respect.

It has become a sort of joke among her friends, but those frank and honest meetings do succeed in keeping the family healthy as the children grow into young adults.

That, also, is a way of looking at this holy season of Lent as well: reality-therapy in which we stand back and assess how it is between us and God, not by our own standards, but by God’s.

We are called to go back to the basics, and evaluate everything we say and everything we do, in the course of our days and weeks, against the very simple and basic mandates given us by Jesus, so that we can make certain that our life is unfolding according to the will and the plan of Almighty God.

For it will only be in so doing that we will draw ever closer to our ultimate goal – eternal life in the Father’s Kingdom of true and lasting peace.