To read the texts click on the texts: Rom 5:12,15,17-21; Lk 12:35-38
The sayings in these
verses are a call to watchfulness and readiness. The call to be dressed for
action would mean literally to draw up the longer outer garment and tuck it
into the sash around one’s waist so as to be prepared for strenuous activity.
If the servants/disciples are so ready, they will be able to be prompt in
responding to the master’s knock, and will be blessed. This blessing will take
the form of a reversal of roles. The master will become servant/slave. The time
of the coming of the master is not known and he may come at any time, but if
the servant/disciple is always ready, he/she will be blessed.
It is not difficult for
us as Christians to relate to this reversal of roles, simply because our God in
Jesus has already become slave. It is now left to us as servants to be ready at
all times.
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