Daily Java: Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? 8 Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink'? 9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' (Luke 17:7-10)
It is easy to get all involved with how good we are, how talented we are, how glad God must be to have us in his kingdom. We forget that we are like we are because of him and his grace. He gave us the talents, he gave us the abilities and he expects us to use what he has given us. We didn’t get it because we are so good, we got it because it s the measure of grace he wanted us to have.
When we serve God, we serve God because we love him, not in order to make him love us. When we do good things, we do them as part of our service. When we have done all we are supposed to do and we have reached the end of our lives, Luke says we are just unworthy servants. We sat in the King’s palace and did the King’s stuff with the abilities the King gave us, and the materials the King gave us using the King’s tools and time. Nothing to do with us. All to do with him. Enough.
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