NOVEMBER 06 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 06  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, Thou art Holy as is the Father and the Holy Ghost and You have declared that we are to follow You and to be Holy ourselves but Lord I find there are times when I find myself “spiritually” weak and I selfishly think that I need more than just following You, that somehow my “faith” is not sufficient ——— I need You Lord and the Holy Spirit to be active in my life as I am active in my pursuit to know the Father, for without Your Grace and Infilling of the Spirit in our daily lives we regress into our worldly ways and evil thoughts that take us away from God as we recoil from the Light and pull the covers up over our heads and bury our minds in the sands of darkness — then the Holy Spirit gently reminds me that “waiting for God to act is fleshly unbelief” (See Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” DECEMBER 6) — forgive me Lord of all my shortcomings and worldly ways and I pray to be filled with Your Love. Please give us the strength and discipline to be “faithful and wise servants” for You and the kingdom’s sake and not hide in our worldly-selfishness but to serve others unselfishly in Your Name!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus started His Parable of the Ten Virgins “preparedness” Lesson with “THEN the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…” (Matthew 25:1) and ended the parable with “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:13) The Parable of the Ten Virgins then addresses details of the first part of the Jesus Question “Who then is a faithful and wise servant…” and now Jesus is going to give us a Lesson in the responsibilities of being “…made ruler over [our] household, to give [our household] food in due season…” (Matthew 24:45) God never requires anything from us that He has not given us instructions for and He has already made provisions for us — for example: God freed Israel from their bondage in Egypt and led them to the “Promised Land” that was already “flowing with milk and honey” and they were to inhabit cities already built and fully supplied with materials — so if God is going to require the “ruler of the household” to give “[the members of the household] food in due season” then God will provide for them as well as giving them instructions which Jesus is doing as He Teaches another parable which He starts like the last parable, “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.” (Matthew 25:14)  This “man traveling to a far country” sounds exactly like God is “the master” and God has made “his own servant” the “ruler over the household” and God has provided the “ruler” with the necessary provisions [“delivered his goods to [the ruler]” in order for the “ruler to give [the household] food in due season.”  So we can be confident that Jesus is going to reveal another Truth of God and give us instructions on how to use the provisions God gives us and to use those provisions to provide for our “household” and to have confidence that necessary provisions will arrive in their “due season”! So let us look at the start of this new parable again and observe that the “man traveling to a far country” means the man is going to leave “his own servants” but is making provision for them [“delivered his goods to”] while he is gone — but without reading ahead, if this parable is instruction details for the Teaching Question “Who then is a faithful and wise servant” then at the end of the parable we can expect the “man traveling to a far country” that at a later date  “HE WILL RETURN” and check to see what “his own servants” have accomplished with the provisions that He has “delivered…to [his own]”!!! This parable in conjunction with the last parable should make us realize the Truth of God that if we want to be “rulers” that we must first be  a “SERVANT TO THE MASTER” and we should ask ourselves the ultimate Question: “Am I willing to SERVE GOD in the manner that He requires of “HIS OWN SERVANTS” and live up to the responsibility that comes with God making you a ‘ruler’?”?!?!?!?!?!? If you cannot come to the conclusion that being a “servant” to God the Father is far better than being a king in the world, then you are well on the way to a day that “there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” — just saying — after all it is YOUR CHOICE — but “CHOOSE WISELY” — and that may mean you will need a “servant’s heart” to hear THE MASTER!!!