Keep Your Lamps Burning

 

 

  Lk 12:35-38

Be Ready for the Lord’s Coming

³⁵ “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ as though you were waiting for your master to return from the wedding feast. Then you will be ready to open the door and let him in the moment he arrives and knocks. ³⁷ The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will be rewarded. I tell you the truth, he himself will seat them, put on an apron, and serve them as they sit and eat! ³⁸ He may come in the middle of the night or just before dawn. But whenever he comes, he will reward the servants who are ready.

The Lord is coming for each one of us, that's for sure, but the WHEN is the question. Jesus advises us to be ready all the time, for he may come for us anytime, a time we do not expect. Recently, one of our Brothers was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after only a week of symptoms that something was amiss.  He is fading fast, mercifully, but his imminent death is still a shock to those who knew him or lived with him.  We know not the day nor the hour, but as Shakespeare put it, "The readiness is all."  Without being morbid or overly preoccupied, may we live the best we can each day as if it were our last.

Bro. Rene

Dear Jesus, help me to live this day to the fullest as if if were my last. Amen.