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Jesus spoke of faithfulness in the first ten verses. Here’s what stuck out to me from my
commentary:
“Faith that does not
result in faithfulness will not accomplish God’s work. It is good
to have faith to do the difficult
and the impossible, but it is essential that we have faith to do even the routine tasks our Master has committed
to us. Privileges must always be balanced with responsibilities.”
Jesus’ story of the servant working in the field and then
coming in and hearing his master telling him to fix supper “emphasizes
faithfulness to duty no matter what the
demands might be … If a common servant is faithful to obey the orders of
his master who does not reward or
thank him, how much more ought Christ’s disciples obey their loving
Master, who has promised to reward
them graciously! … The fact that
Jesus will reward His servants is wholly a matter of God’s grace. We do not deserve anything because we have obeyed Him and served Him.”
Wow! Faith to do even
the routine tasks; privileges
balanced with responsibilities; faithfulness to duty no matter what the demands
might be. Some might say that sounds
like life in an army, Father, but I’m so glad You sent Your Son who lived out these sentences, so that I’d
have a perfect example to emulate, and so I’d have no excuse not to obey, for He obeyed first.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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