Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Dressed and Ready for Service


Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 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. Luke 12:35-36 NIV



I had a sweet aunt who was always dressed up, with good clothes, make-up and earrings, no matter what the time of day when we’d go to visit her even if she didn’t know we were coming. Back in the day it was OK to drop in on family at any time. My Aunt Mary’s wise advice was that I should always get dressed first thing in the morning. Don’t sit around with your hair up in rollers—that was what how we curled our hair back in the ‘60s. She told me about a time that she sat reading a book and relaxing in her pajamas and robe one morning when a couple of police officers came to the door because her neighbor had been in a horrible automobile accident. They wanted her to sit with his wife until family came from out of town. She wanted to change first, but they said no there wasn’t time. So she had to go with them in her pjs, robe and slippers to sit for hours with her neighbor. What a humbling lesson. Always get dressed. You never know what your day will hold. I’ve tried to follow her wise advice.



Like Jesus’ instruction in this scripture recorded in Luke. Be dressed and ready for service.



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. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. Luke 12:38-39 NIV



Like the ten bridesmaids whose story is found in Matthew 25. They all rested until the time when the bridegroom came. They were all dressed, but only the five wise ones were ready as they trimmed the wick of their lamps and had extra oil. Those five made it into the banquet hall with their lamps burning. The other five were left out of the banquet feast when they went to get more oil. Be ready for the bridegroom will say…So you, too, must keep watch! For you do not know the day or hour of my return. Matthew 25:13.



We don’t know the hour, the day…or the year, but we do have the promise of His return. Be ready. Keep watch. How that working for you?



Prayer ~ Dear Jesus, thank you for revealing Yourself to us and for your continual reminder to be ready.



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