NOVEMBER 11 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, You are Gracious and Merciful to all that will accept
Your Grace and Mercy —
O Lord why do we refuse the Gift God has Sacrificed so much to give?!?!
Lord, I believe that there is no other Way but the WAY that You declare
as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Lord when we think we are to strong individually to believe in
Your Great Sacrifice then I pray for Divine weakness to humble us
before the LORD — Lord there is none like Thee and Lord we are
foolish to think that we do not need to follow the Creator of Life in
order to know how to live our life as You have designed us to live!
Lord I humbly bow before You admitting my shortcomings and pray
that Your Mercy and Your Grace be showered upon me and if it be
Thy Permissive Will, that I will be a faithful and wise servant
of THE MASTER!!!!!!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus shows us in the Parable of the Talents that all our “talents” are
gifts bestowed on us by the “Master” but let us not miss the fact that
the “Master” knows each of us personally and the gifts that the “Master”
bestows on us are “according to [our] own abilities” —
Only an All-Knowing, All-Powerful, and All-Loving Master could know
each of us personally and our individual abilities enough to give us
exactly what we need. The Parable of the Talents then amplifies
God’s knowledge of each of our lives as the parable lists the details
of each servant and what that servant did
with what the “Master” had given them:
“Then he who had received the five talents went and
traded with them, and made another five talents. And
likewise he who had received two gained two more also.
But he who had received one went and dug in the ground,
and hid his lord’s money.” (Matthew 25:16-18)
A side note here is not to get distracted by the “amount” of “money”
that was given to each because the important detail is that all “money”
was not the servant’s “money” that they were “entitled” to because of
their “service” but all that they “received” was “given” to them by the
“Master” and was “his lord’s money”!!!
When we get distracted by MONEY WE MISTAKENLY THINK WE
HAVE SOMEHOW EARNED OR ARE ENTITLED TO
then we lose focus on “where” the “money” comes from in the first place
and the Truth of God that we have actually “done” nothing to deserve it!!!
Jesus continues immediately in the Parable of the Talents and brings us
to the Truth of God and the “point” of the parable with:
“After a long time the lord [the Master] of those servants came
and settled accounts with them.” (Matthew 25:19)
This Truth of God then is one that we often miss when we get ourselves
caught up in “trading” and trying to “make more money” and we miss the
Truth of God that there is coming a “time” even though it may be
“After a long time”, but the TRUTH is that the “Master” will RETURN
and there will be an “accounting” of what we have done with
the life that the “Master” has given us!
Jesus has been Teaching that at the “end of the age” that
“heaven and earth will pass away” and there will be a
“judgement/accounting” of our actions and Jesus has clearly stated that
“you are witnesses against yourselves” and that we cannot
“escape [our] condemnation” which is a result of what we have done
individually with the life the “Master” has given to us
and then left us for “a long time”!?!?!?
Each and every parable that Jesus Teaches us is full of Promise
but with each “promise” that the “Master” gives us,
we must accept the “personal responsibility” to the “Master”
that comes with the “Promise” and we must understand that it is God
that is making both the “Promise” and establishes the
“Terms and Conditions” of “His Promise” and since God’s
“Promise” is a “Gift” then we either accept God’s
“Terms and Conditions” that go with the “Gift” or we must
refuse God’s “Gift” because we can not accept the “Gift”
if we will not accept His “Terms and Conditions”!!!
Our digital world cannot be navigated without us first accepting
the “Terms and Conditions” of whatever it is we have chosen
to add to our “possessions” and there simply is “no negotiating
Terms and Conditions”, therefore we check the box “I Accept”
and go to the “Next” button on our way to getting “more” possessions
and we make the mistake of thinking we have “earned” or
are “entitled” to these temporary possessions —
and yet we want to negotiate “Terms and Conditions” with God’s
“Gift” of “Eternal Life”
which is the greatest possession that we could possibly have!
The only “Eternal Life” being offered by the world is the
Gift of Salvation that God gives to those that accept
His “Terms and Conditions” for the
“GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE”
and those “Terms and Conditions for Everlasting Life are:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: EVERLASTING LIFE
“For God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him
shall not perish but have everlasting life.”(John 3:16)
__________________________I ACCEPT
