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 and unbelief.

Then God whispers in the darkness and 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) —

 O LORD, forgive me 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 let us not hide in our worldly-selfishness 

but to Joyfully 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 (His Chosen People) from their

 bondage in Egypt (Babylon?) and led (those that chose to

 “Follow Him) 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!!!