Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Tuesday, November 12th and we will be reading Luke 17, 7-10.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Yeah, let’s read Luke 17, 7-10.
Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come from the field, come at once and sit at table?
Will he not rather say to him, prepare supper for me and put on your apron and serve me till I eat and drink?
And afterwards you shall eat and drink?
Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
So you also, when you have done all that is commanded, you say, we are unworthy servants.
We have only done what was our duty.
My dad loves to watch the show, This Old House.
Sometimes I watch it with him.
One episode we saw they were working on a house in South Carolina and they were trying to keep parts of this section of the house a certain way because it used to belong to the slaves that worked for the original owners.
It was sad to me because that part of the house was plain and one huge room that seemed like it would have been cold.
And they didn’t even have a door into the house so they would have to go all around the house on the outside holding plates of food or dirty laundry to get back into their house to do their work.
The idea of slavery makes me sad because I don’t think Jesus meant it as in the reading from today.
Even though it is about servants, I think Jesus was helping us to understand that we are to have a high view of Jesus and make nothing of ourselves.
We can see ourselves as servants doing our duty.
If we do not keep Jesus to the high level, then we come in with our pride and think we are doing something special for God.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, thank you God for your grace and the gifts you give.
Thank you for all you do to us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!