“Save your soul”
Sometimes members of this forum, in their remarks to my posts, say that I should stick to what is spiritual thus ask questions relevant to Orthodoxy rather than on secular subjects such as “Usury”, “the Jewish People” and so on. ‘You should concern with saving your soul,’ is the leitmotif. Fair enough.
Nevertheless, how I do save my soul, if I do not do what I am supposed to be doing, namely, fulfil the task that has been assigned to me since my calling by the Lord many years ago?
What will the Lord say to me in the day of reckoning if, after all that grace and light was given to me, I did nothing but just buried it underground?
In the parable of the five talents, we read in the Gospel according Matthew 25:24-30, said:
[…] But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown, and gatherest where thou hast not strewed. And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.
And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have not strewed: Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury. Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that hath ten talents. For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away. And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Alternatively, hear it from the Lord but in a different version, although no less frightening:
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. Rev 3: 15-16
Or as Saint Paul in 1 Corinthians 9:16, said:
For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.
Lastly, in James 2:18, we read:
But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.
Thus, my work is to serve the Lord in way He shows me since 1966.
My faith is to believe in Him and His Gospel and live accordingly.
The lowest point, Nadir
