Mat. 13:2 “For the man who has something will be given more … but the man who has nothing will have taken away from him even the little that he has.”
What we do not use, we lose. This is true on the physical level, where we can see how unused muscles lose their strength; on the mental level, where even simple rules of arithmetic slip away from us when we leave school unless we use them often; and certainly on the spiritual level, where faith, unused, diminishes. But a very little faith can grow like a seed; a very little understanding will, with constant use, increase a hundred fold.
Jesus told many parables. More than forty of these stories-with-a-lesson are retold in the four Gospels. Many often stress this point of using what we have, persisting in the good we know, keeping our ways simple and trustful. Great learning is not required, nor much study. Only a quiet turning within and a faithful practice of the truth we know will bring us through any difficulty, and marvelously increase our good.
Our spiritual thought for the day is: I practice the Truth I know and see it increase day by day. Thank you, dear God.
