Tuesday November 11, 2025

Luke 17:7-10

So with you: when you have done all you have been told to do, say, “We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.”’

Our Lord directs this instruction to his disciples to remind them of who they are at the very core. They are servants. I don’t know if you ever grew up with servants in your home. This is indeed a very rare reality here in America but in other places where I have lived, yes yes we had servants. You really do not want to end up as a servant. It is not something to be proud of or write home about.

Yet Our Lord wants his closest friends to be servants. Not to do servant work here and there but to actually embrace the essence of serving.

The first servant I had has remained a servant to this day. Her whole life is about making my life better. Mama is the servant who has taken no rest. If you think about the work our parents have poured into our lives and often times have received so little from us. They serve out of love, they serve because frankly they know no other way of being. What do most parents if not all parents want? That there children be healthy, happy and prosperous.

This is the attitude Our Lord wants from his disciples. But alas he felt they had become entitled to power and money. Thank goodness this cancer is no longer in the church!!