Be Ready

Luke 12: 35-38

Watchfulness

³⁵ “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.

Our days are filled with surprises ranging  from a dishwasher that will not work to the news of a loved one's unexpected death.  Compound this with deafening political rhetoric and Covid threats,, real, imagined or exaggerated,  it's no wonder we feel anxiety building within, and want to escape. The core message for today is WAIT and WATCH.  Remembering  God's past overtures and "deliverances", being alert to his presence at this trying time, as well as talking out our feelings with others can calm our troubled spirits. We might pray, "If you, Lord, have accompanied me this far on my journey, will you abandon me now?  Increase my faith and trust that truly, all shall be well.

Bro. Rene