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Weekly Reminder...
The Weekly Reminder is an informative tool to help people who read it consider what the man of God has said. This weekend’s articles are based on what was heard on October 10 & 11, 2009 in the Westbury assembly.written by Br. Samuel Philogene
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them” (Luke 12:37).
Can we imagine a servant being served by his Master? but Jesus said it will be so to those who shall stay faithful until the end and worked for the Lord and the church during their lifetime. We are called to be faithful servants of God; to do this we have to learn what our Master wants so we better prepared to please Him (Colossians 1:10). If we don’t know what pleases our Master we are only hurting ourselves when we think just by going thru the motions we are serving Him correctly. Micah tells us the will of the Master, he says, “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God” (Micah 6:8). Paul, as a good teacher instructed Timothy, his (spiritual) son how to please God whom has appointed him to the ministry, “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” (2 Timothy 2:3-4). We can say that we’ve been taught how we must serve God. Every time we come into the house of God there are always words and teachings showing us how to please our Master; we can’t say we haven’t heard them.
Last weekend we were taught to be faithful servants ready for the Master’s use and ready for His coming (2 Timothy 2:21); we know that our Lord is coming back (Revelation 22:7) so we must be watchful, waiting for Him. As servants, to know that our Master is coming back should bring in our hearts great joy. When Jesus left His disciples to return to His Father His disciples went back to Jerusalem with great joy knowing that Jesus will come back. With that hope they returned worshiping God and they were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God (Luke 24: 51-53). We can’t be good servants by staying at home, nourishing the flesh and hope that we will be saved when Jesus comes back for us; this is the mentality of the majority of people nowadays, they come to church once in a while and still hope to be with the Lord when He returns. We must be prepared, in the church naturally and spiritually, living the words of God daily which will keep us awake until the Master comes. We must not lie down, we must prepare ourselves. Br. Antoine mentioned that the church of God is a place where we are preparing for the return of the Lord, so when He shows up we will all, as the 5 wise virgins, be ready (Matthew 25:9).
We shouldn’t do like the evil servant mentioned Luke 12:45, who in his heart said “My lord delayeth his coming”; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken.” This is how many of us think, we tell ourselves that we will always have time to pray, we can still sin (most of the time we call them small sins), we will have time to pray and God will always be there to forgive. But in the word of God it is not so, we must be ready everyday of our lives. We must live today in righteousness and in purity of heart like it is our last day to live so whenever The Lord comes we will be there with Him receiving the reward of a good and faithful servant (Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. - Ecclesiastes 8:9). Nevertheless, everyone shall be rewarded by the Master whether you do good or bad; your work today will determine what your reward will be when Jesus shall appear in His glory (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10). See what the scripture says in Matthew 25 about the reward for the good servant in verse 23, “His lord said unto him, well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord”. But to the evil servant it says in verse 30, “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
I don’t want to be an unprofitable servant for God and the church of God but I want God to help me by His word to be a good and faithful servant. We can make it saints of God if we allow the word to get us ready we shall be a good and faithful servant. Remember these will be the words of Jesus in the Day of Judgment, let us work for the church today, let us live for God and we shall greatly rejoice when Jesus will reward us as a good and faithful servant when He returns.
“Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame” - Revelation 16:15.
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