Servants Waiting

Be dressed ready for service

And keep your lamps burning, 

Like servants

Waiting for their Master

To return from a wedding banquet,

So that when He comes and knocks

They can immediately open the door

For Him. 

It will be good for those servants

Whose Master

Finds them watching when He comes. 

Truly I tell you,

He will dress himself to serve,

will have them recline at the table and will come and wait

On them.  It will be good for those servants

Whose Master

Finds them ready, even if He comes in the middle

Of the night or toward daybreak. But understand this:

If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief 

Was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 

You also must be ready, 

Because the Son of Man

Will come at an hour

When you do not

Expect Him.

Luke 12