“STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION!”

 

Luke 12:35-40                                     (ESV)

You Must Be Ready

“[35] “STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION” and keep your lamps burning, [36] and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. [37] Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. [38] If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, BLESSED ARE THOSE SERVANTS! [39] But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. [40] You also must be ready, for the SON of MAN is coming at an HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT.””

With the news being swamped by stories of the tragic deaths in the lower portion of Texas, there isn’t a lot to say to calm and console those who have suffered a loss from the despicable acts.  These were children, supposedly trusting school officials to keep them safe from a reported 18 year old young man who was killed by an official, but after he killed more than 20 people.

Almost the entire chapter of Luke 12 (59 total verses) is text spoken by our CREATOR, noted in my BIBLE by Red Letters.  For me, when JESUS speaks, people should listen!  The verses captioned in the passages today begins with “STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION”!  JESUS is instructing us to “STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION”, but HE doesn’t say that we should allow evil to progress without recourse.  ETERNAL JUDGMENT is nothing that can be duplicated by humans.  It is better left to the ONE WHO is capable of doing what ONLY HE can do!

In our humanity, we tend to respond to calamity with even more calamity.  It has to be very difficult to determine precisely what needs to be done to treat the wounds of an event so tragic with a mind that isn’t affected by the hurt caused by the mayhem.  As an older person who has lived through many “catastrophes”, we MUST “STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION” while we TRUST JESUS with recompensing the deeds.

There is a meme regarding this tragic event that says “thoughts & prayers” with a line drawn through it and “policy & change” written beneath??  While I am not the brightest bulb in the socket, it is very clear to me that “thoughts & prayers” isn’t something that we need to give up on.  We need to “STAY DRESSED FOR ACTION”, but also pray that ALMIGHTY GOD protect and preserve our posterity.  HE is FAR MORE CAPABLE of exacting adequate punishment than mankind is!!!