We are God's people. What a blessing and a challenge to us. We recognize that God has worked so marvelously in our lives, always remaining faithful. Yet we have not always responded in righteous living, to the point that God turns His face away from us.
So we plead with God to turn toward us again, that we may behold Him. He is coming again, so we make ourselves ready to welcome Him in, always keeping watch, living a sense of readiness in our lives by using those spiritual gifts He gives to keep us irreproachable.
It's interesting to note how the servants in the Gospel reading don't know when the Master is going to return. In our day and age, we have schedules that can allow us to be specific in regards to arrivals and departures, but travel was much less fixed and predictable back then. So they, and we, must keep watch for the Master's return. We keep careful vigilance in righteous living to receive Him in, even in those unexpected kind of moments in our lives when He arrives.
No comments:
Post a Comment