“Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their Lord.” (Luke 12:35-36)
To some, life would seem to be a day of business, the goal of which is to the amassing of wealth. To others, life would be one constant opportunity for pleasure, the intervals being filled with strenuous work in order to secure that pleasure.
Whatever the conception of life may be, it determines the conduct of a person and affects all their relationships in this world.
Conduct based on conception creates character, and a person will conform in character to what they make their conception of life.
It is the Christian conception, that is, the conception of the follower of Messiah Yeshua, of whenever one has seen his beauty and heard his call, and responding to both, has passed under his direction, and shares in all the values of his redeeming work.
According to our Lord’s teaching, that man or woman becomes… in all the activities of their life, in all their relationships with others, in all the conduct of the passing days… a person looking for their Lord.
The bloom of beauty on apostolic Christianity was created by the upward look, the expectant return of the Lord Messiah Yeshua.
When a king or queen or some important person is to appear, we wait for them, and there are signs and tokens… outward signs and tokens… of their approach. It will not be so when our King shall come. He will come with a voice and a shout, and the voice and the shout will synchronize with the manifestation, and ere we know it, as swiftly and suddenly as he appeared in the upper room, we shall be face to face with the King, we shall see him, and the vision will be the final movement in our transformation, for we shall be like him.
Luke 12 exhorts us to be “looking for” – it does not mean stargazing! In the word translated “looking”, there is really no thought of the activity of the eye. The real thought is that of men who are eagerly expecting to receive… to receive a guest, men who are expecting to give hospitality.
To receive and give hospitality to no mere guest, but none other than our Master, our Lord, our King, Messiah Yeshua.
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