Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? -St. Luke 6:46
Jesus is supposed to be our Lord and master. In Romans 1:1, St. Paul rightly calls himself "a servant of Jesus Christ."
Indeed, we are all meant to be His servants. As servants, we are supposed to do the things our master says to do.
Why, then, don't we do these things?
It's a good question. The best answer I have come up with is this:
We are meant to be servants, not slaves. Slaves have to do what their master says.
As servants, we don’t have to do what the master says. So, many of us don’t.
Instead, we live on the largess of a gracious and generous master who is currently absent from the scene on earth, sitting at the right hand of our Father in Heaven.
Jesus sketches out this scenario in St. Luke 12:36-48.
Someday our Lord and Master will return.
Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching…Be ye ready also, for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
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