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Luke 12: 35-40

Old conventional wisdom says When the cats away the mice will play.  However, Jesus advised His followers to behave quite differently: When I am away, don’t get comfortable and don’t doze off and fall asleep.  Stay dressed and ready to serve at any moment of the day or night.  It is an image of preparedness that was also used in the Old Testament.  On the night of the original Passover, Exodus 12:1-11, the Hebrew nation was supposed to eat that meal with their cloaks tucked into their belt, sandals on their feet and staff in their hand.  God wanted them to be ready to leave Egypt on a moment’s notice.  In much the same way, Christ asks His servants to remember they are supposed to be ready 24/7 so they can answer His call.  No master wants to get home in the wee hours of the night and find himself locked out of His own house because the servants have “clocked out” for the night.  Of course, the imagery is not really about locks and doors – its about service … yielding ourselves to the service of our Master, Christ Jesus.  Not only will Christ, our master, be happy to find us ever ready to do His will, He will, literally, serve the server.  Christ may be away … but he will come back and we must be ready for Him when it happens.  


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January 12, 2012

Today’s special message from Jesus Christ is:

Luke 12:35-40
New International Version (NIV)

Watchfulness
35 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching 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. 38 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. 39 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. 40 You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Optional reading pages 30 & 31 from the book The Greatest Words Ever Spoken by Steven K. Scott.