The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 157


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 157

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:  Luke 12:35-48
“Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately. “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat and will come and serve them. “And if he should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. “But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. “Therefore, you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” Please take the extra few moments and read the remaining verses to this parable.

Jesus, the Christ of God/Messiah
This parable of Jesus reveals the way of life for God’s children which we commonly call the “Christian way of life”. The seriousness of this parable is right at the top of our life in Christ. Are we aware that even though our LORD is presently seated at the right Hand of God, that He is present with us too? In a Sunday school class some years ago, the teacher asked the class if they knew how big God is. One girl of five years of age explained the God was so big that He did not have to go anywhere because He was already there! Omnipresence cannot be explained totally in human terms, but this little girl exceeded the knowledge of most modern teachers of the Bible today.

The parable is not about “works”, we really ought to lay aside the thought that God expects us to work our way to Him. There is “NO” work that you or I could do that would match the work accomplished in the sacrificial death and resurrection of our Savior, Jesus, The Christ/Messiah of God. The children of God KNOW this, even the ones in verses 42-48 here in Luke 12, but what these children fail to realize is that they have fallen from FAITH, they have become like the unbelieving. Their works reveal a life of failed faith and God rewards failure, just as He rewards faith unfeigned (pure).

When we seek to work out our salvation to please God, we become irritable and the result is a faithless approach to life. We become harsh and impatient with God and the runoff is even to the people around us. We should notice too that there are degrees of failed rewards. Ignorance is not bliss, but true ignorance carries a lighter penalty (A reference to those who are taught to replace faith with works), then one who knows to walk by faith and refuses to do so. (A reference to leadership).

I will be doing more with this parable tomorrow (if Jesus does not return before then).

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