In this episode, John and Victor dive into the importance of taking action in your life and not procrastinating when you hear God’s call. We discuss how easy it is to say “someday, Lord” but remind ourselves that tomorrow isn’t promised—action is required today. We also share personal stories, insights from scripture, and examples of how to overcome fear, hesitation, and the urge to put things off, whether it’s battling addiction, making life changes, or answering God’s call to serve.

📚 Bible verses for reflection:

Matthew 25:1-13 (Parable of the Ten Virgins)

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Welcome back to the Pew everybody. I’m your host, John Edwards, and here across the table from me. I’m very excited about. Out is my co host and cohort, Victor Adams. I’m back everybody. I’m here. We miss you. I was out of town. Yeah, I was out of town. You were out of town. And the reason is I was visiting my family down in Quincy.

Also happened to get the Florida state Memphis game. Yeah. Everyone knows what happened. I don’t need to go into that, but anyways, Christie had a great time, cheered her team on for victory. It was great to see my folks, my aunt and uncle in Quincy, Florida, and really do a quick stop down there and come back to Memphis.

Yeah, man if you’re going to lose, you at least lose the team you like, I don’t know what that word means. You could have lost the Florida or Miami and that would have been a lot more painful than the team you actually cheer for here. Yes, I’ve accepted that. Yes we need work.

But like I said, I am cheering for Memphis now and really hoping that they continue to do well. I think they’re, I think they got a great quarterback and a great team and we’ll see how they go. And Lord knows Memphis had plenty of years of Memphis state years and all that stuff of being at the bottom of the barrel and 10 people being in the stadium.

I’m happy for them. But. Look, you got to visit your family, all those things. You got to have a good trip. I was out of town too. That weekend I was in Muncie, Indiana this past weekend. And South Bend, right? Yeah. In South Bend this past weekend. So got to go up into the Notre Dame area.

They were playing a game. I didn’t get to go cause it was at the same time. actually it started right as I was leaving the mission and heading back to Chicago. But man, both weekends were full of just fantastic people and warm receptions and really just people that, that understand what we’re trying to do.

And we launched a couple of groups in those places. The Muncie one, we’re going to even continue to launch at a greater scale through the men’s conference in October when we go back. But there in South Bend, they had a great group of guys. We’ve been training and leading for months. And man, I just know that the Lord is going to do things and build fruit that lasts there.

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So yeah, that’s good. Yeah, man. It’s always fun to give shout outs to places We’ve been and And just to share a little bit, man, so people can see and be excited like we are you can hear about it all the time but when you’re there and you see it and you’re just, you’re seeing the impact the ministry has and what God is doing with all of it, it’s just a tremendous thing.

And I can’t help but share at the beginning of these shows, man, I’m not trying to waste people’s time or bore people. There’s probably some people that skipped the front five minutes, trying to get to the show but I just want to share the joy of it so that people can see that something they’re listening to, something they belong to, something they’re partnering with is making a difference.

So if I say go back 20 seconds, you need to go back 20 seconds. If you skipped to this point, you may make people mad. There was somebody that showed me, they were listening to us at two times speed the other day. I was like, how do you do that? But he said he was trained and I just, I know maybe it works for us because we’re from the South and we speak slower, but.

Somebody like Father Mike Schmitz on Tom’s too, I wouldn’t even, my ears would explode. Like steam would start coming out of my ears. But anyway, I digress. The last couple of weeks, Victor, we’ve been talking about a lot of important things. We talked about desolation the last time you were in here and struggles and personal places I’ve been and you’ve been in it before and the difficulty of sitting in that.

And as I thought about that after the episode, I came back, when you were gone. And did a show on waiting for God and talking about how difficult that can be. But that’s exactly what the Lord wants us to do, right? It’s not on our time. It’s on his and we learn a lot of virtues in that waiting, right?

It’s painful. We don’t like to slow down. We don’t like to be quiet. A silence is a killer for a lot of us because of these phones and just the culture in the world that just throws busyness at you all the time. And so to sit down just feels awkward and it makes you anxious and the devil’s constantly whistling your voice to get up and do something else.

But how we have to persevere in that desolation, but also in that waiting that waiting for God, because it’s that’s where we find our marching orders. So that’s where we left off when you were here. When you were gone was with the Waiting for God, and as I was thinking this week, it’s funny.

I did a show yesterday called Marriage Unhindered on Relevant Radio with Doug. Great guy. Met him at the National Eucharistic Congress and he asked me to come on. So that happened yesterday and was live. I was sharing my story, just about the whole thing, the drugs the walking away from God, the Angel, the grace of Angel being in my life and obviously what’s happened since.

And, we got to talking about addiction and things like that. And he said some things on there that really struck me. And there was a reflection in the gospel reading today, the reflection I read from the legionaries of Christ spoke about this a little bit too in today’s gospel. But. Just this idea of how we could someday, we can be in the opposite place where the Lord is spoken clearly into our lives after our waiting, after our times of desolation.

And their answer is someday, Lord, like someday. And we do that a lot in our lives with a lot of things, and I know that I’ve done that in my life. There’s still times where I know the Lord is calling me to do something and I try to put it off. I procrastinate. And so where we’ve been talking about waiting.

Yes, the point is we need to wait for God in those difficult times, in the peaceful times. We always need to be looking for the direction, the guidance of our loving father and the direction that we receive through the Holy Spirit. But the thing is, some of us sometimes we get in that position of waiting and we never stop waiting, right?

Like we either are unsure or maybe we’re sure and it scares us about what God is asking us to do. So we take that mentality like, okay, I hear you God, but I don’t know that I’m ready for that yet. I don’t know that, that now’s the right time. Lord, I got a lot of things going on. And so in that trepidation, in that fear, in that anxiety, sometimes where we’ve waited the way we’re supposed to, and we hear an answer, sometimes it’s not the answer that makes us comfortable.

And sometimes it’s not the answer we like. And so it can cause us to procrastinate and it can cause us to give that sort of I hear you Lord, but someday type response, right? The great stories in the Bible are those that say. You got the wrong guy, God. Cause, cause there’s many stories where that begins the formation of that person working, hand in hand with God’s will.

And all of us are called to work in God’s will, and like I said, whether like for you starting this nonprofit, just got a pew other people like, like me being a convert from the Protestant faith to the Catholic faith and what can I do? Something I love to do, and our daughter, she goes up and she’s an altar server.

And then Christy was like what can I do? And, now she’s in the choir. So we’re all involved in mass and the worship and being part of the liturgy, which is a blessing for all of us. It can be that big as starting a nonprofit or serving in your church or serving your community. You’re doing something being God’s, hands and God’s feet for the people in need. And if you’re thinking about something like that and you’re just didn’t know how to start, maybe this is that, that urge to like really look into what you can do because God asks all of us to do something for his kingdom.

Yeah, he does. And we never know fully what that is. Yeah. You get inklings sometimes, yes, you’re lucky and the Lord says, okay, and it makes it clear to do this. I know people that said, Lord, do you want me to start my own ministry? And if you do open the door to this room, I’m in, and the door opens, and nobody’s there. Like I’ve heard stories like that. So sometimes God is very clear. And sometimes it’s just, that’s what the waiting is for, right? We talked about last, I talked about last week is like when you wait, you actually learn God’s mannerisms. You learn God’s voice you learn how he moves, you learn to see him in things.

So it’s not Lord, give me a sign. And you wait for lightning to strike in that moment or whatever, because that doesn’t happen as often as we would like, but you just learn just like you do your wife or anybody else when you’re around them enough. How they act, what they’re thinking, what they feel.

You start to build that two way communication, if you will, with God. And when you hear those things, the next step is to get up and to do something. And that’s where the devil, he doesn’t like that you’re listening. He doesn’t like that you’re waiting. Certainly doesn’t like when you begin to hear God.

And when you get directions from God, what is he going to do? He’s going to show up and he’s going to start whispering in your ears and all the things we talk about all the time. Like you’re not good enough. You’re not equipped enough, Victor. What are you going to do? This is how you make your living.

If you leave the ministry a Protestant ministry and go to be Catholic, what are you going to do? You’re married. You can’t be a priest and deacons don’t get paid. And what are you going to do? And I know there’s so many ministers I know personally that I’ve walked with in the last couple of years.

They’re like, dude, I’d be Catholic in a heartbeat, but I don’t know how to. Yeah. How to support my family. Yeah. And that’s a real thing. Yeah. Like you, you’ve given all your time in seminary and all these things that you’ve gone and this is what your heart has wanted you to do. But sometimes what God wants us to do isn’t always what we want.

Or what seems to be the easiest thing. But the thing is here. Once God gives us an idea of what’s clear, then we have to take that step forward, innit? And you’re right. Like Moses, he’s one that’s I stutter, Lord. You find somebody else. He tried five or six excuses of why God shouldn’t use him.

Gideon talked about why he shouldn’t use him. Everybody looked at David and was like, really? Like him? Look at these other dudes. They all look like, the ultimate warrior or whatever. And you’re with this scrawny kid like this happens a lot with God. But the thing is, we have to be able to move forward and be, and to take action.

But what happens a lot, Victor, is we procrastinate because one, we don’t believe we’re worthy, all those things. But two, like we just, sometimes when we get direction, we’re fearful of what it’s going to take to do that, or what it’s going to cost us in those things. And we do it in our health decisions, right?

How many of us every year at the beginning of the year, I’m going to, this is this year I’m going to change my life. And, and sometimes the doctor is telling you like, Hey, if you don’t change this, or you don’t quit drinking, or you don’t quit eating like you are, you’re going to have a heart attack.

And we know there’s consequences. We know there’s things that could happen if we don’t change our behaviors. But we, I will someday, right? I will after the Christmas season, I’ll get back in shape after the Christmas season, or I’ll quit eating after like this, after I enjoy this last bag of chips in the closet or I’ll, I’ll go to confession.

It’s only a chocolate cake. Or I’ll go to confession when the right priest did I like that’s nice to me is going to be in there. The one that’s easy on me or I’ll, we procrastinate about these things and. On everything work decisions when you know Hey, maybe it’s time to move on for a job, but you’re scared again about things.

And those are natural feelings. If we feel that we’ve heard the voice of God, then we got to quit saying someday. Because what happens is, and this was the point of the, of Doug, who’s been a counselor and a marriage therapist and addiction therapist and all that stuff that’s on marriage, unhindered on relevant radio.

When we were talking about the story, he said, yeah, man, that’s just the thing I’ve heard so often over the years from addicts is I’ll quit when I’ll stop when, and when he said that, man, it was like a knife went in my heart because that’s how I was for years. I remember saying to myself I’ve met this beautiful girl, God, you’ve finally given me what I’ve been asking for, in my broken prayers because I didn’t really have a relationship.

It was just asking God for things with no action on my end at all and no worship or anything like that. But he finally gives me this beautiful girl better a better girl than I could have ever have dreamed for in my life a better woman to Court and to marry. I just sound like I was from like the 1800s to court like people like what the heck is a court?

It translates to dating, to get them digits. I don’t know But to talk to and into and to start building a life with and I know I have this problem of addiction in my life You know the binge drinking the drugs the pornography all that stuff and I was thinking well, you know What i’ll stop before we get married Cause that’s what I always told myself.

I’ll quit when I get married, I’ll grow out of those things. Like Paul says, you’ll put away childish things, but I didn’t man. I was doing drugs till seven in the morning and I did not the day I got married, right? I thought I’ll quit when Jacob’s born. Like when we have our first child and I didn’t I’ll quit, after, when my mother died, it’s time to get straight and get my stuff right.

But all that did was fuel me to go further. I’ll quit, the next time we have children and we had twins and I didn’t write and finally God sat me down. But to be honest with you, Victor, so there’s a good chance I could have died or been caught by Angela and lost everything and made some very bad decisions in my life.

I don’t think I would have ever done it on my own, right? Like I really don’t. I just, because that he’s right. What we do and not just with addicts, but a lot of us in our life, like we just, it’s always tomorrow. It’s always tomorrow. And we live in this way where we feel like we just warrant a tomorrow every day of our life.

Yeah. We live as if we’re going to all live to be a hundred years old. Or 120 or whatever right and that’s not the case, we don’t know what’s going to happen I mean we’ve seen people over the last, you know That we know over the last few months pass away that are barely older than you or I we’re not promised tomorrow right and we put a lot of decisions off in our life And it’s certainly the most important decisions on changing our lives stopping addictions Giving our life further to Christ we put those on tomorrow and tomorrow and that the truth is Victor For some of us tomorrow may not come right and like you said tomorrow men exist and let until you start today yeah, if you start today if you start praying today if you start Going to mass today if you start speaking Kindly to your spouse today or your children or somebody that way you change that behavior today As you listen to this if you change what you’re struggling with today You’re not putting you’re saying tomorrow when I wake up be a better day or the week can be a better day Like I said, it’s always difficult to start something new in the present moment because you’re scared to do it you’re concerned that I will be I would change people won’t want to be around me You know all these as you said the lies say if you change You For the good, then all the people that you hang out with won’t want to be with you or your whole, shift paradigm shift of who you are changes because you’re afraid of who you might become if you change your life.

Sure. Yeah. Or just yeah, all those things, what it’s going to cost you or just, it’s hard. If you lived in habits your whole life or for a long period of your life, it’s hard to break those things. And the reality of what it may cost you. If you’re addicted to something, a lot of pain, a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress.

That’s been your coping mechanism forever. So what are you going to cope with now? There’s all that anxiety. And so we choose to eat back into that comfort area and like that prison cell that the devil’s had us in for all, we become like our own jailers. We just go, you know what?

Nope. I don’t like the way that feels, or I don’t like the way it’s beginning to feel to even think about change in my life. So I’ll just stay in here and we stay, we put an arm dog collar back on that the devil has on us in our life. Sure. And that’s not what we’re supposed to do. Like the Lord is speaking to us.

And for those of you who might be sitting out there, you’re like, this is a hard conversation for, you hear your conscience is the voice of God in your life. I really believe that. I believe like when you when things, when you know, you’re doing things that aren’t good for you, or, you need to change behaviors in your life and you’re hearing it from your soul, like you’re feeling it inside and your gut starts to twist.

When you even think about I know this. And I need to, but like that is God giving you the directions you’re looking for. We sit about, we talk about sitting and waiting. That is one of the best, the biggest ways that God shows you that he wants you to move in your life Is that conscious that we have that feeling the thing that keeps eating at you and won’t go away, right?

It’s this thing because the Lord is not he’s not punishing you He’s continuing to point out in your life the things that are keeping you from him And so those things are difficult, but if we don’t listen to that if we continue to think well, it’s going to be much harder To change than it is to sit here.

We’re wrong. Yes. It’s hard to change, but things that are worthwhile are hard. And the opposite of that is if we procrastinate, we’re going to miss out potentially on being with the one that we’re supposed to love the most and the eternal life that he calls for. I was watching a clip from that movie that came out a year, a couple of years ago from Paul about Paul with Jim Caviezel playing Luke and all that, and he’s talking to The guy that’s imprisoned him that is eventually going to stand over his execution.

And this, they were, this is a creative license in the movie. But he begins to talk to the man about how, as humans, we look at, we, we step into the ocean, we pick up water, and we hold it in our hand, and the water quickly runs out, and we believe that’s the life, that’s the life that we have here, and it runs out of our fingers so quickly, and we’re all, we’re so concerned about how quickly that water is running away, but if we look up, we see the ocean of water, and the endless amount of water that is eternal life.

And he looks at the guy and he says, I hope that one day you stop looking at the water in your hand and you start seeing what at the water that’s all around you and what’s set before you. And it just gave me chills because again, I believe that God gives me signs when it, when I’m on the right track of what he wants me to talk about in a given week.

And that was another like random Instagrill. Instagram reel that, that popped up in the midst of all the dumb ones nobody wants to watch. But it led me also to scripture. Matthew 25 1 through 13. We’re all familiar with this, but this is the parable of the bridesmaids, right? And this is what Jesus says, he’s telling this parable and he says, Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

Five of them were foolish and five were wise. For, when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them. But the wise took flask of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, Behold the bridegroom, come out to meet him. Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil for our lamps, or going out. Here they were like, Oh man, we messed up. Share with us what you have. And it says, But the wise replied, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you. Go rather to the dealers and buy for yourself. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

Afterwards the other maidens came out also, saying Lord, open the door to us. But he replied, Truly I say to you, I do not know you. Watch therefore, for you neither know the day nor the hour. This is Jesus himself saying look. I’m going to give you everything you need. I’m going to give you the hints.

I’m going to lay things out before you. Maybe not a hundred yards at a time like you want. Maybe that one pebble, that one stone to step on next, I’m going to give you what you need, but you got to be ready. And when you do, after the waiting, after the times of silence and listening that we talked about, I talked about a week ago.

So there has to be action. And this is what he’s saying. These people showed up, they looked apart, they had the lamps, but they didn’t fill them with any oil. They didn’t prepare. And so they all fell asleep waiting on the Lord. And the ones that were that awoke when he came that had the oil were the ones that were invited in.

The ones that had stayed persistent and kept things ready and took action when they were called to take action were the ones that reaped the benefit, the eternal reward. But the ones who didn’t had to then go and try to make up for all this time. Where they didn’t have action where they didn’t take action and the time had passed.

And that’s what we risk when we do the same thing in our lives. And you can go any further than that is that’s a story of our hearts, is our heart on fire, on flame for God, or is it on flame on fire for something else? Is it, are we being distracted in our life by our job, our career politics, or anything else that like, it takes away from our focus of being trying to love perfectly as God wants us to be to love, our neighbor as ourselves, to love God with all our heart, strength, body, and mind.

All these things, this is what Christ said to us, and the, those that were. I’m going to do everything I can because God loves me so much and I love him and those that fell asleep probably just there. They love God initially, but they are distracted by the things where they allowed some, some anger or envy or that someday Lord mentality.

Yeah. Yeah. I’ll get ready when he gets here. I’ve been waiting forever and, they said in the Bible, the end’s coming or he’s coming, but yeah, it’s been 2000 years. So I guess I’ll do the deathbed confession, slide in home safe, kind of thing. But that does, that’s not guaranteed for all of us.

No, it’s not. And Fulton Sheen even says something to that, our guy, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, he says, God has promised men pardon if they’re penitent, but not if they procrastinate. So he promised you mercy if you’re repentant and you take action in your life, you’ve listened to the Lord, you hear your conscience, you make, you take action.

You waited for the Lord. He’s spoken and you take that action. He promises mercy, but not if you procrastinate and John Paul, the second Pope, John Paul, St. John Paul, the second. Another one of our heroes and favorite saints. He says the future starts today, not tomorrow. He goes on to say he who takes the road of later ends then on the road of never.

I know some people who seem to turn life into a perpetual waiting room. The trains come and go and they say, I’ll leave another time. And he goes on to say, too, I’ll make a confession on my deathbed. But the thing is, they missed the train. They missed that confessional. And that’s not what any of us want, right?

That’s what any, not what any of us needs. And for those of you who want me to explain it a little even simpler, there’s an old comedian that my dad used to listen to in the car from Yazoo City, Mississippi, Jerry Clower. And he used to tell this joke on this tape my dad listened to all the time. And he talked about, there was this town and a flood was coming.

The dam was breaking near the town and this flood was coming. And so this police officer. He went through the town and he started, on the megaphone, telling everybody to evacuate. And so he pulls up to his house with his old man and his wife, and he says, get in the police car. The water’s coming.

You got to leave. And the old man says, Nope, God’s going to take care of us. And they sat there rocking in their rockers. So the dam starts to break more water, starts to break loose. And all of a sudden the sheriff comes by that house again on the boat and he looks at the husband and wife and this time they’re sitting on the roof of the porch.

And he says, come on, get in the boat. This is one of your last chance. We don’t know if we’ll be able to make it back. Get in the boat. The water’s coming. It’s going to get higher. And he says nope. Go on. God’s going to take care of me. So then next thing you know the dam breaks fully the waters flowing through the town and the man and woman are sitting on the very edge of their chimney on the very roof.

The only part of the house that’s out of the water and they come out in a helicopter. And they’re sitting there all the helicopter noise with a megaphone. Grab the ladder, climb up. This is your last chance. This is our last pass. Jump on the ladder and come and be saved. And the man says, no, God’s going to take care of us.

Next thing you know, the helicopter leaves, the water rises, they drown and they’re dead. Next thing they’re in heaven. They’re standing before the Lord and they look at God and say, Lord, what gives? We thought that if we waited on you, if we were just You know patient and we were faithful then you would save us and he goes you dummy I sent you a car a boat and a helicopter, right?

Yeah, right So god sends us these signs But it’s up to us to take action when we see them And we can’t be people like i’ve been in my life like you’ve been in your life Like other people have been in theirs these people that just say someday lord. I know what you want of me I know what you’re asking of me, But someday Lord, because Victor, as we’ve talked about here, these popes and the, these saints are future saints in Fulton Sheen in the gospel, Jesus himself has told us in this parable, there may not be a tomorrow.

This isn’t to scare people, right? I’m not trying to go, Ooh, get scared and do something. It just realized that this time we have is limited. It’s short. It may not seem like it, but a hundred years is nothing in the span of God and the time of God. And a hundred years, many of us won’t get. So yes, we’re supposed to wait for the Lord. We’re supposed to listen and to endure the, all the things that come at us when we’re trying to just sit in that silence. But when we feel that nudge, when we feel that conscience speaking to us, when we feel the Lord urging us to move forward, then it’s time to act.

We can’t be people that just sit around all the time and procrastinate and wait for some perfect conditions because they’re never going to come. I could tell you in every hard decision I’ve made in my life since I quit my job, none of them I ever knew was a sure thing. None of them I ever. I had a written affidavit from God that said if you do this everything will turn out fine.

It took faith. It took trust. And it took me understanding His voice and being able to try to do the best I could to follow Him. But in the end of it all Victor, it took action. And so that’s what we’re calling everybody here today. Listen to what you’re hearing. If something is hitting you in the gut over and over again If you’re in a place of addiction or a place of bad habits or repetitive sins, or you’re in a place where you need to, you know you need to change jobs or you need to be a different man for your wife and your children.

You know that repeats again and again in your interior life. You feel it in your conscience, you feel it in your gut. So stop fighting. Stop saying someday, Lord, I was lucky in my life. That my that the Lord sat me down in a jail cell before I killed myself before I died of an overdose Before Angela left me and took everything when she found out the Lord gave me a chance that he doesn’t often give to everybody So don’t play russian roulette.

Don’t roll the dice with that Listen to what God’s saying in your life right now and move forward to make the decisions to be the man He’s calling you to be right and by what you’re saying is say to yourself today Lord. I will do this I will stop this. I will be better this I will you know blank, follow You know, whatever is that you’re struggling with say today God I will do this.

Amen make that promise A set goal in your life today. Yep the future is one foot forward at a time and it’s time to start walking So let’s take all this to prayer in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. Amen Heavenly father you ask us to wait and be patient to listen to your voice There is a time for that lord, but when we hear your voice You call us to take action So often we like to procrastinate, so often we like to say someday Lord, but that’s not the path of a true disciple.

When you call us to act, we must move Lord, and we do so in faith in you and in trust in you, and after we’ve learned to hear your voice. Lord, help us to listen to our conscience, help us to move forward in the way that you call us to, and help us to take our courage always in you, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.