“But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk and afterward you will eat and drink.’”
Oh another source of grace. He has angels, more glorious, more holy than we are; yet we are brought in to His Kingdom to serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Jesus can speak things into being by just a breath of a syllable, yet we get to be a part of the ministry of reconciliation and the establishment of His kingdom. Adam received the curse to his labor, yet we’re redeemed in that we plow a field whose ownership is the Lord’s and we tend this sheep that has been bought by His blood.
He can make His own seasoned food that far surpasses the finest cuisines, yet He tells us to takes up His pots to make Him food a loving response to Him who has bought us by His own precious blood.
May it not be that I drag my feet towards the kitchen in frustration while complaining about how I have to serve Him even more. Far be it that I gird myself with a scowl and a self-pitying countenance. Why? For it’s grace lavished on grace that the Lord, not just let me dwell with Him in His holy palace, but also to serve Him! This passage implies a spiritual truth that before I enjoy the fruit of my labor, I give Jesus my first fruits and then He allows me to enjoy it with Him. Yet it’s not my meal, it’s His. It’s His plates that I set on the table, it's His apron that I gird myself with, and it's His food, grown in His field, cooked by His stove fueled by His wood cut down by His axe-- all thigns I use ot serve Him, they are all His.
Application: It's an absolute privelage given out of grace adn mercy, that He commands me to do for Him. He commands me to do for Him. Before the spirit of grudgenment indwells my heart when I'm told to do something more than usual, I need to remind myself that He's commanding this out of love for me, for I will be laboring and being blessed with that labor with Hi. "And afterwards you will eat adn drink." Every morning I'm going to pray expecting that I will recieve more work than I expect so that I won't be suprised and I will be ready to go through it.
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