I Am a Servant ~ Honeytree

The master gave the servant one job: feed the other servants. Take care of them. Treat them with justice and fairness.

Jesus gives us two hypothetical human examples of servant behavior.

One is just, conscientious, and kind. That servant is rewarded.

The other is flippant, unjust, and cruel. That servant is condemned.

He lets the story dangle and allows us to apply it to our lives.

The first servant was living with a sense of responsibility and expectation; the other was living with no regard to the fact that the master might show up any time.

The job of the servant is to serve the master and one's fellow servants.

The dangling question is: What kind of servant will you be?

Matthew 24:45-51 (NRSV) -

"Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time?"

"Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives."

"Truly I tell you, he will put that one in charge of all his possessions."

"But if that wicked slave says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."