Daily Meditation - Tuesday 11th November 2008 - WE HAVE NO CLAIM ON GOD

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Are you ready to give the Lord your best, regardless of what it might cost you?
  • Perhaps we are like the laborer in Jesus’ parable who expected special favor and reward for going the extra mile?
  • How unfair for the master to compel him to give more than what was expected!
  • Don’t we love to assert our rights: “I will give only what is required and no more!”
  • But who can satisfy the claims of love?
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Jesus used this parable of the dutiful servant to explain that we can never put God in our debt or make the claim that God owes us something. We must regard ourselves as God’s servants, just as Jesus came “not to be served, but to serve” (Matthew 20:28). Service of God and of neighbor is both
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