Ephesians 2:12-22 / Luke 12:35-38
We usually like to be notified in advance if someone wants to pay us a visit.
Then we will tidy up our house or office and prepare something to welcome and entertain our guests.
But if someone visits us without prior notice, then we may be caught in an inconvenient or untimely situation.
But for those servants in the gospel passage, they knew that their master will return from the wedding feast, just that they do not know when will it be.
Jesus is telling us to be ready and alert always and He will visit us in the form of persons whom we don't usually pay much attention to or whom we don't usually have time for.
We must be ready and alert and be aware that it is in such persons and situations that Jesus is paying us a gracious visit.
Because whenever Jesus pays us a visit, it is always a visit that comes along with His blessings of love and peace and joy.
It may be at an inconvenient and unexpected time, but it will always be a God-filled and blessed moment.