NOVEMBER 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31-05 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

NOVEMBER  19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#31-05 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45) 

365 Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, Lord we do pray to be wise and faithful servants, but only to an All-Wise and Forever-Faithful God who has proven Himself Faithful and True, a Loving God who has “so loved the world” that He would give His Only Begotten Son to be the Acceptable Sacrificial “Lamb of God” for the atonement of sin. Lord let us realize that it is sin that separates us from Your Wisdom  and divides our desires thereby decreasing our “faithfulness to God” which leaves us a slave to sin and self. Lord, it is a daily struggle and daily it saps our strength of spirit that can only be renewed by the indwelling of Your Holy Spirit so Lord I pray for forgiveness where I fail You each and every day because I always drift away from the Shelter of Grace in the Still Waters of Your Peace and I let the secular winds blow me back to the world and myself — both of which are naturally servants to sin and faithful only to self — Lord I know that if, and only if, “the Son makes you free” that then, and only then, I can be truly be free of self and my slavery to the world.  Never before have I written this ——— with my heart so focused on  Jesus ——— “ I LOVE YOU LORD”!!!!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

NOVEMBER  19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#31-05 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”   Jesus asks one of those questions that on the surface seems simple but if we fail to look below the obvious outer layer of the question we will fall victim to our natural prejudices that have been ingrained in us by the secular world. For instance, many may find it “below” their “privileged status” to consider themselves as “servants”  to anyone or anything because they have bought into the mantra “I am the captain of my soul” and sing at the top of their secular voice “I Did It My Way”. Surely these secular dogmas of “self” are superior to being a “servant” — or are could you already be enslaved to a secular society that has placed invisible chains around your initiative and imprisoned you in a lifetime of progressive secularism that is devoted to self-promotion from which there is no freedom — which is the true definition of slavery! If we do not look at “Who” is asking the question and “When and Where” He asked it and take into serious consideration “Why” the question was even asked and “What” could Jesus possibly want to teach us by asking such a humiliating question, then you will forever remain in your secular shackles! Let us first look at “Who” is asking the question: Answer: Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. (Need any more references — I’ll give you one more, Jesus is my personal Lord and Savior!) Next we must consider “When and Where” the question was asked: Answer: “When” — The Last Week of Jesus being on earth to bring salvation to a world that was moving away from God during the Passover Week that is the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and “Where” — in Jerusalem, the City of David where the temple of the Living God was built by King David’s son Solomon who was considered the wisest person to ever live and built the temple for the Living God to reside in and it was God that gave Solomon his wisdom and it was God that gave David victories over his enemies and which gave David the city of Jerusalem which became the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah. The common meaning of “Jerusalem” is “The City of Peace”. To understand “Why” Jesus asked the question and “What” Jesus is trying to teach us, we must look at the question itself and listen to what Jesus tells us about being a good servant, not from the viewpoint of the secular world, but from God’s own heart and Compassion for His Creation that shows itself in God freeing the Israelites from Egyptian bondage which gave the occasion for the Passover Feast and why at this particular Passover Feast that God’s Only Begotten Son will become the Sacrificial Lamb of God thereby bringing salvation from the bondage of sin to everyone that believes the Living God and His Only Begotten Son would love the world so much that They would go to such great extent to prove Their Love for a lost and dying world. Until you understand that when you become a “servant of God” that only then will you be “master of your household” then you cannot begin to understand why “servanthood” to God is better than being “King of the world”!!!!!!!!!!!!