Luke 12:35-48
“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”
The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
“The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
I'm going to assume this passage is about the second coming of Jesus and that we must be prepared to meet him. It sounds to me like you aren't even aloud to sleep here. I'm really confused. So if Jesus comes and I'm sleeping or not dressed for the day yet then I'm as bad as an unbeliever for not being preapred...? Won't I die if I don't sleep? And what happened to not worrying so much about things in past or future? How am I not supposed to worry? What if Jesus comes and I'm asleep or not ready? Then I'll be beaten and thrown into hell? I really hope I'm just misinterpreting this.
Meanwhile, I'm going to admit somehow I lost the other passage I was going to put in here, but I noticed several times it is said in the Bible that if you want to follow Jesus you must sell everything you own and give it to the poor. Don't get me wrong, I donate to charity whenever I can and probably will be able to give more once I actually have a job. I also do want to become more involved, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Join a program or something I guess? Meanwhile, if I get rid of everything I own, how am I supposed to survive? If I walked up to my mom today and said, "Hey, guess what, we need to sell our house and everything we own and give all the money to the poor!" I don't think she'd take it well.
*Sighs* Maybe I'm just reading it wrong. Anyway, off to read the rest of my passages for the day. Hoping I'll understand the rest of them without a problem.
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