So the estate owner sent a trusted servant to see how things were going and to collect his dues. What an honor for the servant!

I would like to be such a servant. (Except I balk at the getting beat up part.)

So the master sent another servant, perhaps of greater rank. He got beat up also.

The owner, not one to give up, tried again.

“And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out” (12).

I imagine the third fellow knew the fate of the previous two representatives.

He did his part anyway.

And got the same treatment as the first two.

Would I go on a similar mission?

Have I ever shied away from representing Jesus because I knew how it went for the others?

Peer pressure and problems and persecution can really put a damper on my zeal sometimes.

May He find me a faithful representative anyway!!

from Luke 20:17

A little bit more from Luke 20: Did He Have a Choice?

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