Waiting

Today’s Gospel Text: "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! Luke 12:35-38

Reflection: Life is a constant waiting

We have to constantly wait in life, either for our turn to come or for our turn to finish.

We could wait for someone or we could wait for none.

Some waiting is worth the wait and even the process is joyful and the long wait is made easy because of the goodness and beauty of the end goal.

Even those who wish to die have to wait for their turn.

But there are some types of waiting which are crucial to life, sustenance and survival. Among these some are not easy to practice if not made a habit and discipline of daily life. 

It is this difficulty that Jesus is communicating to the general public and the prerequisite for us to have this discipline for our life, sustenance and survival.

The most beautiful part of this waiting is that it is not a mere drudgery or a painful grind, even though it may seem to be. It is a marriage feast in which the master is coming home to and the occasion is abundantly joyful and worth all the trouble.

The wait too is rewarding assures the master, he will spontaneously and humbly serve the ones waiting for him with faithfulness, diligence and perseverance.

Since the relevance of this waiting is very significant, one would only be a fool to procrastinate ones decision making in this waiting.

Get down right now on your knees and implore to him for all the help that you may require to wait. Do not fail to take complete advantage of the help that comes your way  in order to wait on him who is an unavoidable necessity for us; Jesus Christ.

Prayer: Lord as I take my vow to wait on you daily help me by your grace never to backslide in my commitment to you.

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