OCTOBER 23 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 each day I wake up and read Your Word and I pray for
“daily bread” and then at the end of the day I find my heart overflowing
with gratitude for the marvelous things you have done during that day.
After giving me a great day, You also grant me a good night’s sleep
after which I awake to a new morning and again realize there is yet
another day in which I can observe Your Glory and marvel at Your
Provisions for our daily lives!!! Provisions such as the air we
breath and the circumstances You lay out daily before us as
opportunities to “serve” the kingdom — Lord, thank You for revealing
the enormous blessing of “serving” You and for giving us the
privilege of “serving others” in Your Holy Name. Lord I praise You
for the daily “infilling” (to overflowing) of Your Holy Spirit, and my
prayer is simply to be a good steward of Your Abundant Provisions,
both physical and Spiritual!!!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus admonished us to “learn this parable from the fig tree”
and we miss on our first reading that Jesus is telling us that there will
be “signs” from our daily day-to-day existence that God will use to
communicate to those that will “listen”. All Israel saw fig trees everyday
in their day-to-day existence and we today can use our own eyes to
see fig trees and know if they are bearing fruit or not. When Jesus
was baptized by John the Baptist who had come to be a “witness”
of the coming Messiah and to “make straight the way of the Lord”,
John the Baptist explained about “signs” when he said:
“I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize
with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit’.
And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
(John 1:33-34)
John proved that he was the “Witness” sent by God and his
testimony was simple and to the point. John had “seen” what
the Holy Spirit had told him to observe and then John told the
“TRUTH” of his observation and gave this “testimony” of Jesus,
the One that John had just baptized —
“this is the Son of God.”
(John 1:34)
John had been told to look for a “sign” and when John saw the
“sign” with his own eyes while doing what John had been doing
on a daily basis, the fact that the Holy Spirit had told John to
watch for a “sign” BEFORE it happened, that when it did happen
and John could see with his own eyes and recognize it as a “sign”
from God Himself, John was able to say confidently about Jesus
“this IS the Son of God.”!!!
So we also, if we “learn the parable from the fig tree” like Jesus
has told us BEFORE it happens, that when it does come to pass
that we can “see” with our own eyes the “sign” and we also can
proclaim as John did, “this IS the Son of God.”!!! God has
always told us BEFOREHAND what HIS PLAN is and our
advantage today in our modern age is that it is all written down for
us in the Holy Bible to use as a list of “signs” that have been
fulfilled already and then there are those “signs” that are yet to
be completed. God has made it simple and has given us the ability
to “see” Him in our daily day-to-day existence - that’s why Jesus
tells us the parables about “watching” for the “signs”
and then Jesus says,
“Therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man
is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
(Matthew 24:44)
and to really make us focus on what God expects of us Jesus asks,
“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)
After all, let us not forget Jesus did not come to receive tribute,
He came to receive thorns, to suffer and to die for others, and was
rewarded with victory over the world, death, and the grave ———
what more could we ask for? We cannot be greater than
our “Master” and it was Jesus who said,
“…just as the Son of Man did not come to be served,
but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many…”
(Matthew 20:28)
then we should understand that to be “great” in the kingdom of God
that we are not on this earth to be “served” but to be a
“faithful and wise servant… to serve and to give [to others]”
and in our selflessly giving as Jesus did to others, we thereby will
Glorify our Father in Heaven and we will hear God proclaim,
“These are My [children] in whom I am well pleased.”!!!
(Matthew 17:5)
