Mark 13: 23 - Be alert!
Mark 13: 33 - Keep alert!
Mark 13: 35 - Keep awake!
Mark 13: 37 - Keep awake!
‘But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.’
Jesus, Mark 13: 32 - 37
Great passage of scripture. This chapter used to confuse me a lot. I actually think I understand it now. For us, the most important thing is to remember that we "each have a work to do." Amazing and scary responsible. We each have a work that I think God will ask us about. He has given it to us. Now are we going to party to suit ourselves, or are we going to take seriously our status as co-workers with God in his new creation, doing what we has delegated to us to do? We are not supposed to worry about all the American standards of success that permeates our thinking: "Are we good enough? Are we successful? Are we effective?" I think that we will simply we judged by our self-evident response to this question: "Have we been faithful?"
In these words Jesus is giving us the key to faithfulness: STAY AWAKE, STAY ALERT.,
No comments:
Post a Comment