The King’s Return
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Are you ready for another kingdom? Are you ready for your masters return? Do you believe that Jesus will return with judgement for the unfaithful and blessing for the faithful?
How we believe the narrative of this life ends effects how we live our lives in the present.
Jesus promised his disciples and the multitudes that he would return, telling them to “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.” (Luke 12:35-36, ESV).
We are to stay awake. We are to keep the lights on. We are to be dressed for action.
When the master returns, he will knock and expect us to receive him.
John tells us of Jesus’ words in Revelation when he says to the church in Laodicea, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20, ESV).
Our master Jesus desires to come in, not to be served by his servants, but to serve them and to break bread with them. This was unheard of in the first century. Jesus is reordering the social customs in order to serve his faithful servants.
This is why Jesus says, “Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.” (Luke 12:35-36, ESV).
This is the exact posture Jesus took with his disciples in John chapter thirteen when he arose from the Passover table and put on the towel and washed his disciples feet.
The question is, “Are you ready for your master’s return? Are you ready to be blessed and served and given another kingdom by your soon and coming king?”
“If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! …You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Luke 12:38 and 40, ESV).
May we be ready for the return of our king and his soon and coming kingdom.
A Prayer for the Coming of God’s Kingdom: “Hasten, O Father, the coming of your kingdom; and grant that we your servants, who now live by faith, may with joy behold your Son at his coming in glorious majesty; even Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.” (#115., Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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