The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
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kjv@Revelation:14:12
( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )
Today's Verse:
kjv@Luke:12:35 kjv@Luke:12:36 kjv@Luke:12:37 kjv@Luke:12:38 kjv@Luke:12:39 kjv@Luke:12:40 kjv@Luke:12:41 kjv@Luke:12:42 kjv@Luke:12:43 kjv@Luke:12:44 kjv@Luke:12:45 kjv@Luke:12:46 kjv@Luke:12:47 kjv@Luke:12:48 G1401 servant/slave dict:easton Coming dict:naves Will We are coming from coveting not and seeking the kingdom first to a girded about as engaged servant/ministers with lights burning. It seems quite natural that if a servant was not hording up for the life of leisure and not burdened so with daily cares that it would be much more likely that the returning Lord would find His wise servant so doing as to be given great reward in due season. As to what the opposite of this would be, we are told of a self indulgent house manager abusing his staff. It is hard to imagine such a man as being Christian, but he would have to be if given the title manager. It's even harder to imagine this to be common enough to make such an analogy unless he is performing said abuse in order to provide for himself such daily cares and hording towards leisure. It is they now being used to serve his own purpose. If truly common, it must speak of our treatment of each other as believers who yet seek so after such material gain. Rather, the Lord's will is to serve one another the greatest serving the as the least. This cannot be done by those serving covetousness and anxiousness and self indulgence as if it were service to their Lord. The complication and true motivation to this is that we just don't know when the Lord is going to peek in at His own door to find us doing. We have been given much, therefore much is required. I am trying to think of how this might presently be observed in the modern church life. Churches are shopped and chosen on the bases of how they best serve the needs and desires of the individual member and individual family. Sermons/seminars/classes/studies/devotional materials are crafted and distributed towards how the individual can better get everything they need out of life. Service has little to do with service towards each other and more like a show where one sits backs and lets the entertainment of a few come to him/her. Those that do serve are often quoted as being tired, being beat down, being heavily burdened and burned out; with good reason. The blame can be distributed just as much to these few servants however because that is the way that church's service has been constructed, the congregation in a sense is only meeting the expectation placed upon it (I think of the issue between Martha and Mary and how much more Martha made out her service than even the Lord wanted her to make). This too may be an out growth of the same covetousness and daily care in the front office that fills the pews and the community at large. It is time for each of us individually to consider where we are at with the service that the Lord has given to each and every one of us and how much of it we are actually doing. Perhaps such a seemingly remote and distant parable is not as remote and distant as we would rather choose to believe. Declaring Certainty Further Resources: Comment Board:Luke:12:35-48
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G3623 steward/manager dict:tcr Steward
dict:torrey Second Coming
filter:NT will of
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Key Messages:
kjv@Mark:13:32
kjv@Romans:13:11
kjv@1Corinthians:4:1
kjv@1Corinthians:4:2
kjv@1Peter:4:10
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