NOVEMBER 11 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “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)

NOVEMBER 11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31 “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 Prayer    

JESUS, You are Gracious and Merciful to all that will accept Your Grace and Mercy — O Lord why do we refuse the Gift God has Sacrificed so much to give?!?! Lord, I believe that there is no other Way but the WAY that You declare as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Lord when we think we are to strong individually to believe in Your Great Sacrifice then I pray for Divine weakness to humble us before the LORD — Lord there is none like Thee and Lord we are foolish to think that we do not need to follow the Creator of Life in order to know how to live life as You have designed us to live! Lord I humbly bow before You admitting my shortcomings and pray that Your Mercy and Your Grace be showered upon me and if it be Thy Permissive Will, that I will be a faithful and wise servant of THE MASTER!!!!!!   AMEN

NOVEMBER 11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus shows us in the Parable of the Talents that all our “talents” are gifts bestowed on us by the “Master” but let us not miss the fact that the “Master” knows each of us personally and the gifts that the “Master” bestows on us are “according to [our] own abilities” — Only an All-Knowing, All-Powerful, and All-Loving Master could know each of us personally and our individual abilities enough to give us exactly what we need. The Parable of the Talents then amplifies God’s knowledge of each of our lives as the parable lists the details of each servant and what that servant did with what the “Master” had given them: “Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. And likewise he who had received two gained two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money.” (Matthew 25:16-18) A side note here is not to get distracted by the “amount” of “money” that was given to each because the important detail is that all “money” was not the servant’s “money” that they were “entitled” to because of their “service” but all that they “received” was “given” to them by the “Master” and was “his lord’s money”!!!  When we get distracted by MONEY WE MISTAKENLY THINK WE HAVE SOMEHOW EARNED OR ARE ENTITLED TOO then we lose focus on “where” the “money” comes from in the first place and the Truth of God of what we have actually “done” to deserve it!!!  Jesus continues immediately in the Parable of the Talents and brings us to the Truth of God and the “point” of the parable with: “After a long time the lord [the Master] of those servants came and settled accounts with them.” (Matthew 25:19) This Truth of God then is one that we often miss when we get ourselves caught up in “trading” and trying to “make more money” and we miss the Truth of God that there is coming a “time” even though it may be “After a long time”, but the TRUTH is that the “Master” will RETURN and there will be an “accounting” of what we have done with the life that the “Master” has given us! Jesus has been Teaching that at the “end of the age” that “heaven and earth will pass away” and there will be a “judgement/accounting” of our actions and Jesus has clearly stated that “you are witnesses against yourselves” and that we cannot “escape [our] condemnation” which is a result of what we have done individually with the life the “Master” has given to us and then left us for “a long time”!?!?!? Each and every parable that Jesus Teaches us is full of Promise but with each “promise” that the “Master” gives us, we must accept the “personal responsibility” to the “Master” that comes with the “Promise” and we must understand that it is God that is making both the “Promise” and establishes the “Terms and Conditions” of “His Promise” and since God’s “Promise” is a “Gift” then we either accept God’s “Terms and Conditions” that go with the “Gift” or we must refuse God’s “Gift” because we can not accept the “Gift” if we will not accept His “Terms and Conditions”!!! Our digital world cannot be navigated without us first accepting the “Terms and Conditions” of whatever it is we have chosen to add to our “possessions” and there simply is “no negotiating Terms and Conditions”, therefore we check the box “I Accept” and go to the “Next” button on our way to getting “more” possessions and we make the mistake of thinking we have “earned” or are “entitled” to these temporary possessions — and yet we want to negotiate “Terms and Conditions” with God’s “Gift” of “Eternal Life” which is the greatest possession that we could possibly have! The only “Eternal Life” being offered by the world is the Gift of Salvation that God gives to those that accept His “Terms and Conditions” for the “GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE” and those “Terms and Conditions for Everlasting Life” are:

                                                TERMS AND CONDITIONS: EVERLASTING LIFE

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting  life.”(John 3:16) 

__________________________I ACCEPT