OCTOBER 30 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 30  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, Lord You bestow blessings on us everyday but yesterday Lord You made extra special for me as I was able to spend the day in honest labor out in Your creation and as I exclaimed yesterday “Wow, look at my office!” 

Lord Jesus, I thank You for the health You have restored to me so that I can do the tasks that You have laid before me and You have allowed me to work outside with no walls and nothing to obstruct my view of Your heaven or prevent me from breathing in Your fresh outdoor air! 

Lord I Thank You for the work You have granted me and trust me to do for the kingdom so I am doing my work “heartily for the Lord and not for men”!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is now Teaching another detail of “being prepared” for His Return and the end of the age and illustrating a critical detail in that although His “coming” is at the “end” of the age, no one knows “when” that time will be except God Himself, therefore Jesus being the Master Teacher is telling us that it is best to “always” to be prepared and “watchful” for His Return. 

In His initial question Jesus asked “Who then is a faithful and wise servant…” (Matthew 24:45) and now Jesus starts His Parable of the Ten Virgins by saying, “THEN the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…” (Matthew 25:1) The use of the word “then” has a Message and Lesson in itself for “then” can be any time and is dependent not on a particular day or an exact hour but by an impromptu event. When we think of the word “then” our mind draws a picture of a future event or describes a marker in history when an event occurred — but either way, “then” describes an event that “will” happen or already “has” happened. 

The Lesson we should draw from Jesus using the word “then” in this case is that Jesus is referring to His Second Coming and Jesus is saying to always  “be prepared” BECAUSE His Return “WILL” happen, and it does not matter “When” the event occurs but what matters is that whenever the event does occur that we are prepared “THEN” — Jesus is Teaching that we should prepare for the event “NOW” so that we are ready “THEN”!!! 

The obvious Truth of God that Jesus is Teaching about being prepared BEFORE the event occurs is that “when” the event does occur that “then” it will BE TOO LATE TO PREPARE! The fact that Jesus uses the word “THEN” and follows it with the phrase “…the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to…” is that if we are not prepared for the “kingdom of heaven” that “when” God says the end of the age has come and “THEN” GOD SENDS His Only Begotten Son BACK to get all those “prepared” for His Return, that “THEN” it will be TOO LATE and the “unprepared” will be left behind!!! 

Jesus begins His Lesson on “preparedness” with this very important word “THEN” and immediately ties it to the “the kingdom of heaven”, therefore we would be “wise” indeed to be prepared; for indeed Jesus is the One that is our “GUIDE” and Jesus is the “LIGHT” that will illuminate our path to the “Narrow Gate” through which we must “Enter” into the “Kingdom of Heaven”!  

The fact that Jesus is making it clear that at the “end of the age” that HE WILL RETURN and “THEN” there will be either “rewards” for the “wise ones that are prepared” or “penalties” for the “foolish ones that are unprepared” ——— the “reward” is “heaven” and the “penalty” is that the “unprepared” have condemned themselves to an eternity separated from God. 

Jesus starts His Lesson with “THEN” because “when” He Returns it will be TOO LATE TO PREPARE and Jesus is reminding us that “NOW” is the ONLY TIME we have to PREPARE — but as always, “being prepared” is a “Choice” each individual MUST make but as always, the “Consequence” has already been “Divinely Determined” —your “Choice” will determine your “Consequence” so “CHOOSE WISELY”!!! ——— DO IT NOW!!!