Waiting With Joyful Expectation

Living the Sermon on the Mount Through the Practical Wisdom of Jesus' Parables

"It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes…"

Luke 12:37 (NIV)

The Parable of the Watching Servants: A master leaves his servants in charge and promises that when he returns — at whatever hour — those he finds faithfully watching and working will be richly rewarded.

Jesus isn't asking me to pace anxiously, scanning the horizon for signs of His coming. He's describing something quieter and far more sustainable — a posture of readiness that shapes how I move through an ordinary day. The watchful servants in this parable are not white knuckling it. They are simply awake, dressed, and living faithful lives. Present. Attentive. Expecting someone they love to walk through the door at any moment.

That kind of expectancy has a way of changing everything it touches. It reorders what I give my attention to. It keeps my faith from going soft and passive. It makes even the small unremarkable moments of the day feel like they matter — because they do. I am not just filling time between now and then. I am living in the meantime as if the Master could arrive at any moment — because He could.

What if…I moved through today less like someone killing time and more like someone who is genuinely, joyfully expecting Jesus to show up?

Lord, wake me up to the day in front of me. I don't want to sleepwalk through what You have prepared. Keep me attentive and expectant — not anxious, but fully alive in Christ every moment. Amen.

Let's do this together.

Founder, IHS Global™