Watch...

Matthew 24:42-51

"The whole Gospel is a call to us to remain awake, watchful and on guard against the enemy who never sleeps, as we await the Lord's arrival...

Our Lord warns us in many ways, in different parables, against negligence, carelessness and half-hearted love. A loving heart is a vigilant heart, both over itself and over others, because God also expects us to be watchful and on guard over those who are especially united to us by the bonds of faith, of blood and friendship.

When Our Lord speaks about the coming of the thief in the night...He is teaching us not to allow ourselves to be distracted from the great enterprise of our salvation. He doesn't want us to think of vigilance merely as something negative - to watch doesn't just mean to stay awake for fear of what might happen if we fall asleep. To watch means being alert, on the qui vive; it means craning your neck out of the window in hope that you will be the first to cry out, 'Look! He's coming!' To watch means to look forward with eager expectation to Our Lord's coming."
--from In Conversation With God, vol. 4, pp 481-482