OCTOBER 20 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)

 OCTOBER 20  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)

OCTOBER 20  LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord we do pray to be wise and faithful servants, but only to the All-Wise and Forever-Faithful God who has proven Himself Faithful and True to us, a Loving God who demonstrated that He  “so loved the world” that He gave His Only Begotten Son to be the Acceptable Sacrificial “Lamb of God” for the atonement of all 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 sin daily saps our strength of spirit and loss of spirit can only be renewed by the indwelling of Your Holy Spirit — Lord I pray for forgiveness where I fail You each and every day because I always drift away from the Shelter of God’s 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 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

Jesus asks with JQ#31 a Question 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 could you already be enslaved to a secular society that has placed invisible chains around your initiative and imprisoned you to a lifetime of progressive secularism that is devoted to self-promotion from which there is no freedom — being devoted entirely to self meets all the criteria of the true definition of slavery! If we do not look at “Who?” is asking the Question, “When and Where?” the Question was asked, and take into serious consideration “Why?” the Question was even asked (i.e., the context of the Question) and “What?” could Jesus possibly want to Teach us by asking such a humiliating simple 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 — further His Last Week was the Passover Week: 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 who 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 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 to understand “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. God’s Great Compassion for His Creation is demonstrated by God freeing the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and instituted the Passover Feast and culminating with this particular Passover Feast in which 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 the “master of your household” and only then you can truly begin to understand why “servanthood” to God is better than being “King of the world”!!!!!!!!!!!!