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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