Chosen lineage

Contrary to this lord that the parable of the useless servants describes, God does not treat us as if we do not deserve anything, we are worth nothing. God considers us, God helps us to live a blessed life.

For example, in one of the passages of Scripture, when the disciples are sent to preach the Gospel and return after their evangelistic journey, when they return to the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord tells them: Let's go to a separate place to rest. In other words, the Lord knew that these people had been working hard, hard in the task that He had given them to go to the villages and preach the Gospel, and when they return He is aware that, like they need a vacation and that's why He says to them: Let's go now to a deserted place to rest a little. Very different from what this parable indicates of an owner, a lord who is very inconsiderate of his servant's needs for rest.

God loves us, God treats us as children, God treats us as people who deserve His consideration, God constantly blesses us, rewards us, shares with us, seeks companionship, seeks intimacy with us, is pleased when we approach Him to praise Him , adore him, express our needs to him. God invites us to open ourselves before Him, and in a part the Lord Jesus Christ says that: "I will no longer treat you as servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing" but will treat us as friends.

Let me read you the specific passage found in John chapter 15 in verse 15, where the Lord tells the disciples: "I will no longer call you servants because the servant does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends, because All the things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you. "

So we see here that the Lord does not treat us with that attitude, but the background of our relationship with God must be that, our understanding as a subconscious must be: but no, although God treats me differently in reality what I am is This person who, ultimately, has no rights judicially, ontologically, in what I really am, I do not have the right to ask God for anything. But praise the Lord, thanks to Him that He treats me rather with consideration, friendship, paternal affection.

And that is the wonderful thing about this parable, it is that it teaches us both. On the one hand, it obviously tells us: you do not deserve anything, you have to be totally surrendered to the Will of God, you have to live a life of total performance as if you are slaves, but it also reminds us, implicitly, that God has actually adopted us. as children. He treats us not as slaves but as members of His family, we have been adopted, we have been grafted into God's family tree.

And I want now, since I gave them the wound, I also want to put the healing and anoint that wound with a little oil. The wonderful thing is that God treats us as friends, as children even though He doesn't have to. Despite the fact that we truly are slaves, unworthy of anything good, God calls us His children, and Jesus calls us His friends. Now in our true relationship in grace, all is generosity and goodness from God, not because we deserve it, but because God is a merciful and loving God.

This oppressive and gloomy image that Jesus paints through this parable reminds us that this is the way things are judicially in the Kingdom of God, and that if God wanted to treat us that way He could very well. But then he invites us to remember that we have to thank God because He treats us in a very different way, that through His Grace we can aspire to good things, we can approach, for example, the passage says that we approach the Throne of God with confidence. Grace to receive timely help.

What a beautiful image, right? We approach the Throne of God not as before a demanding and demanding judge, and uranus, but before a Throne of Grace, of love, of mercy, of generosity and we have to come before that throne, he says confidently, by means of a broad and generous path. which is the path that Christ has opened for us through His death on the cross.

Another passage that I like when I also dictate to myself that benevolent dimension of the way God treats us, although He doesn't have to treat us that way, is that passage from Romans 8 that says that: "He who also gave His Son on the cross, How can He not also give us all other things together with Him? " not? That idea that, if God has already done the most that was to give His Son, how could He not also give us the little things that we ask of him in daily life?

I also think of the passage from Ephesians in chapters 1 and chapter 2, for example in chapter 2 of Ephesians we see that the Lord Jesus Christ tells us through the apostle Paul: "So you are no longer foreigners or upstarts, but fellow citizens of the saints and members of God's family. " Ultimately God has every right to treat us as foreigners, as people who are merely close friends there who must stay as there on one side of the house, serving people. But he says: no, no, now God treats us now as citizens, we have citizenship, we are not illegal in the Kingdom of God but we have every right to enjoy all the blessings of a citizen and more than that, we are members of the family of God.

The other passage that I like very much is found in First Peter chapter 2 verses from 9 onwards, also listen to this passage so beautiful for our encouragement, our blessing. He says: "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by God so that you may announce the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. People of God, who once had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. "

It is like that at one time we did not deserve anything, we were guilty of the wrath of God, we were separated from the inheritance of the people of God, but now God has brought us into His family and has made us a chosen lineage, a royal priesthood, a a holy nation set apart by Him for us to serve Him and to enjoy the good blessings that God has for us.

What a beautiful contrast! On the one hand we must consider ourselves useless servants who have nothing to ultimately add to the Kingdom of God, but on the other hand we are members of the family of God and God has treated us in a way that we did not deserve and that we are truly children of God with all the rights of a child in the heavenly family.

May these be the foundations of our identity and may God help us to always be grateful for the wonderful kindness and consideration of the Lord. God bless you and until our next meditation.