BS 35 - Luke 12:37-40

Luke 12:37-40

“It will be good for those servants whose master finds them washing when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him.”

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. It’s so easy to be lazy and wait around. Procrastination is a thing I’m very good at. God doesn’t tell us to be lazy and procrastinate though. He says to be ready, get things done, be prepared. No one knows when Jesus will come back, and it’d be better if we were expecting Him. How awful would it be if He came back and we hadn’t done anything He commanded us to do.
This parable goes along with the parable of the ten virgins. “Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps…The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out…Therefore keep watch because you do not know the day or the hour.”  

I want to be ready when He comes. I want to be prepared, having done all that He’s commanded me to do. I don’t want to be lazy, waiting around. Especially since no one does know when He’ll be coming back, I want to make sure I’m one of the wise. 

Application: I’ll pray every morning for a week that God’ll help me to not be lazy and at the end of the week I’ll talk with Venessa about what God showed me.