35 Let
your loins be girded about, and your lights
burning;
36 And
ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from
the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
(Luke 12:35-36)
This reminds me of times
when I was a teenager and I would come home from a youth stake dance around
11pm. I always wondered if the
door would be unlocked for me or whether someone would be awake to let me in if
it was locked. I wondered if I
would might have to stand outside and bang on the door and the windows to get
let in. Thankfully, those
times the door was locked, someone was
awake and nearby, ready to let me in.
This imagery is interesting
to me, not just because of what it tells about what Jesus wants to see, but
also what He implies He doesn’t want to see happen.
He doesn’t want to be like a
lord who comes back from a late night party and has to yell and hammer on the
door for quite some time before anyone comes to let Him in. Likewise, He doesn’t want to come back
to the earth and find His own servants unaware and asleep and unready to
receive Him because that would imply that they don’t care.
He wants the lights burning,
showing people are awake. What
kinds of things are we to do to show the Lord we are awake spiritually and
waiting for Him for His second coming?
He says he wants our loins
to be girded about, showing we are still at work. This isn’t supposed to be a situation where the servants all
go to bed early or rest because the master isn’t home. He wants us to work until He returns.
The cool thing is, the verse
that comes after shows that there is a nice reward for those servants who do
this:
Blessed
are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh
shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and
make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. (Luke 12:37)
This could mean two things—first,
a big sacrament meeting (as in D&C 27) with all the servants of God
together and/or it could mean a big conference in which Jesus Christ does a lot
of teaching and ministering and healing (kind of like when He came to the
Nephites).
That’s something to look forward
to, isn’t it?
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