Everyone Who Has Been Given Much
March/13/2008 Filed in: Daily Walk
Series
• New
Testament Reading: Luke 12:35-59
• Old Testament Passage: Genesis 39:2, 20-21
• Points to Ponder
“Everyone Who Has Been Given Much”
Worry about our lives in this world, causes us to focus on our lives in this world to the exclusion of
God and his will. We must be watchful, aware that Jesus is coming back again, so that we will not be
caught unprepared, not doing the master’s will. Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, God has given us
so much! We are so incredibly blessed. We know God and his will for our lives. We have been given
much by God and we need to be busy doing much for God in this life. Since we have been given
much, much will be demanded and since we have been entrusted with much, much more will be
asked.
Those are hard words, aren’t they? And it isn’t easy living for God and doing his will in this world, is
it? In fact, Jesus promises that our faithfulness to him will actually be the cause of problems even
with those we love the most -- our family. Yet, Jesus still expects us to listen and to obey, in the face
of temptation, pressure and even persecution. Being Christians is not a free ride through this world
-- Jesus didn’t preach the so-called, “health and wealth” gospel. He blesses us by his grace and he
leaves us here, with all the resources necessary, to do his will in our lives while we live in this world.
• Questions to Consider: How does Jesus statement in Luke 12:48 make you feel? Do his
expectations excite and energize you or do they discourage and defeat you? Do you really think
that God would go to all the trouble (putting it mildly) to save us and then give us such an
important charge without also giving us all that we need to do his will in our lives, no matter
what circumstances we find ourselves in?
• Old Testament Passage: Genesis 39:2, 20-21
• Points to Ponder
“Everyone Who Has Been Given Much”
Worry about our lives in this world, causes us to focus on our lives in this world to the exclusion of
God and his will. We must be watchful, aware that Jesus is coming back again, so that we will not be
caught unprepared, not doing the master’s will. Through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, God has given us
so much! We are so incredibly blessed. We know God and his will for our lives. We have been given
much by God and we need to be busy doing much for God in this life. Since we have been given
much, much will be demanded and since we have been entrusted with much, much more will be
asked.
Those are hard words, aren’t they? And it isn’t easy living for God and doing his will in this world, is
it? In fact, Jesus promises that our faithfulness to him will actually be the cause of problems even
with those we love the most -- our family. Yet, Jesus still expects us to listen and to obey, in the face
of temptation, pressure and even persecution. Being Christians is not a free ride through this world
-- Jesus didn’t preach the so-called, “health and wealth” gospel. He blesses us by his grace and he
leaves us here, with all the resources necessary, to do his will in our lives while we live in this world.
• Questions to Consider: How does Jesus statement in Luke 12:48 make you feel? Do his
expectations excite and energize you or do they discourage and defeat you? Do you really think
that God would go to all the trouble (putting it mildly) to save us and then give us such an
important charge without also giving us all that we need to do his will in our lives, no matter
what circumstances we find ourselves in?