NOVEMBER 10 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 10  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 I am overwhelmed by Your Marvelous Grace and Gracious Mercy that You pour out daily on me and our family. We can see You working in our lives in ways that even exceed our prayers and hopes. Lord Jesus we know that we do not deserve  the blessings You have showered on us so my prayer is for us to be good stewards of all that You have given us both spiritually and physically and make us aware that good stewardship of kingdom treasures is to share them with others! 

So Lord keep us daily mindful that we are to be Your hands, feet, and heart for those with needs and when we encounter those needs that we will share with others as You have so generously shared with us! Lord Jesus, keep us safe in the Father’s Hands and strong and secure in Your Love!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus reveals the Truth of God thereby revealing God the Father through the parables and the Jesus Questions that Jesus asks! In this Jesus Question JQ#31 and these Parables of the Ten Virgins and the Talents that accompany JQ#31, we are to focus our attention on (1) the Master/Servant relationship (2) the Master’s expectations of servants that choose to be “His” servants (3) and also Jesus gives us a “How To List” of serving the Master! 

These are all very important things to know about “The MASTER and King of Heaven and Earth” and “how to” gain favor with the “King” and “how to” gain entrance to and inherit all the privileges of “The Kingdom of God”!!! Jesus gives us details of all these in a special way as He started the Parable of the Talents by setting up the scene for us as we see the “Master” giving “His goods” to “His own servants” and then the “Master” leaves “His own servants” in charge of the Master’s “Goods”. 

There is an implied “DIVINE TRUST” that the “Master” has imparted to “His own servants” expressed by the fact that the “Master” gave them the “talents…each according to [the servants] own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.” The picture in my mind is in Genesis: “The Lord God [the “Master”] planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there [the “Master” ] put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food….then the Lord God [the “Master” ] took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.” (Genesis 2:8-15) When I read that God gives everything to each “according to their own ability” I learn that God has always given His Personal and Undivided Attention to His Personal Relationship with each INDIVIDUAL!!!  

Since God did it for the first man Adam and now Jesus is Teaching that the “Master” gives each “according to their own ability” we must TRUST that God knows our individual needs and will provide for us accordingly! Jesus is also Teaching us that God will make all the necessary provisions for us but then God “Divinely Trusts” us to use them responsibly — God gave Adam the “entire” Garden of Eden that contained “everything” Adam needed to live an “abundant life” and had not Adam “disobeyed” God, Adam would have lived “eternally” for it was Adam’s “disobedience” to God that was “sin” and brought “death” into the world! God did not put Adam into the Garden with a “guard” placed in the garden to watch over him ——— No, God gave Adam the Garden and INDIVIDUAL FREEWILL and the responsibility to “tend [the entire garden God had provided for him]”! 

Then we read that after Adam and Eve had disobeyed God that “they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden…” (Genesis 3:8) and since we can assume that God was not with them while they were partaking of the forbidden fruit that God had “returned [to the garden that He had given to Adam with the responsibility to watch it]” to check up on them which is the same scenario we read about in the Parable of the Talents as God gives “His own servants” talents “according to [their] own ability” and then leaves them with His Trust and the responsibility to use them wisely.

We can also assume that if God gives us a “talent” or “talents” that He has already made sure they are the “talents” we need to live an abundant, successful and productive life and that like the Loving Father that GOD IS, the “Master” will RETURN to make sure we are OK, at which time we will naturally be judged by our own actions and what we have done with the talents and responsibilities God has graciously bestowed on each of us, “according to [our] ability” — that’s about as “Fair and Equitable” as it gets!!!