Gospel: Luke
12:39-48
Jesus
said to his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known
the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken
into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of
Man will come.”
Then
Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” And the Lord
replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will
put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper
time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly,
I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. But if
that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to
beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, then
that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and
will punish the servant severely and
assign him a place with the unfaithful. That servant who knew his master’s will
but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten
severely; and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a
way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be
required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of
the person entrusted with more.”
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Reflection:
Are you a
faithful and prudent steward of the Lord?
We are
all just stewards of everything that we have right now. It’s not ours
everything that we have right now is only lent to us. As such, we should properly manage what we
have in our possession. We should all be worthy stewards; we should put to good
use whatever talents that God has given us.
However, if
we will not be up to the task that God has given us. We can rest assure that
eventually everything that we have will be taken from us because we were not
worthy of the blessings that God has bestowed on us.
The
gospel today talks about the coming of the Son of Man. The servants who were caught unaware were busy doing their own
thing. These servants are like some of us; always very busy with the things of
this world. We forget God or God becomes only our second or third priority.
We must
put God forward first, before anything else it should be God first. How about
the things of this world? It should not be our priority. Of course we need
these things of this world but we should not allow it to control our life
Thus, we
become prepared servants for the coming of Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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