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. Luke 12:37
“But when you come to the heavenly homeland will you find a traveler to welcome, someone hungry to feed, or thirsty to whom you may give drink, someone ill whom you could visit, or quarreling whom you could reconcile, or dead whom you could bury?
No, there will be none of these tasks there. What will you find there is what Mary chose. There we shall not feed others, we ourselves shall be fed. Thus what Mary chose in this life will be realized there in all its fullness; she was gathering fragments from that rich banquet, the Word of God.
Do you wish to know what we will have there? The Lord Himself tells us when He says of His servants, Amen, I say to you, He will make them recline and passing He will serve them.
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) in his Sermon 103 as recounted Milton Walsh in Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012) 423-424.
Welcome to our home. That’s how I pray my friend Simon Rattray feels when he steps into our new home (pictured above) with his wife and daughter visiting from Australia.
God supplied free Colorado Rockies front row tickets at Coors Field! What a treat. We also look forward to some special meals together. There’s nothing like table fellowship.
They will be our first house guests. Our new place is simple. It’s a ranch with a side yard on one side for Jenni’s garden and the other for our dog and entertaining guests.
The time will come to recline and be served by our Lord. But in this life, we get to focus on serving others and we may go through suffering too. But we can make it. God’s got us.
If you are ever passing through Colorado, let me know. Give me notice as I travel a bit. We’d love to welcome you. How might you open your home to welcome someone generously?