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Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

1 Corinthians 3:12–13, ESV

As followers of Christ, our concern is not the motivation of someone’s actions in the name of Christ, but our own. We cannot know the heart of another, nor can we judge the things that they are doing, but we can look in the mirror and see the one person’s work we can understand. Jesus pointed this out when he was speaking to His disciples in the Temple with the example of the Pharisee’s prayer and the prayer of the tax collector. As we focus our hearts and minds on doing things to serve our Lord in the care of our neighbor, this is the only thing that truly matters, and our goal is to make our work something that lasts. If we help someone, are we doing it to look good before others or because we desire to be an ambassador to Christ? We cannot judge the fruit because we don’t have God’s vision, but we do have His Word. Let this be our primary guide in life to seek to do those things which are pleasing to Him and be quick to ask for mercy in the areas we will fail. This is the power that our Lord has given us, and it is through our certainty in who He is and what He has done that we may find our peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.