THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: - Vital Christianity

to her. When they had passed through the main streets they came to theoutskirts where the houses were much smaller and on the very fringe theycame to a house which was little more than a hut. ‘That is your house,’said the conducting angel. ‘What,’ said the woman, ‘that! I cannot live inthat.’ ‘I am sorry,’ said the angel, ‘but that is all we could build for youwith the materials you sent up.’” 376The standards of God’s kingdom are not the standards of earth!APPLICATIONThis passage should help us to set our priorities straight. In our society, money, pleasureand status now occupy first place. Praying, believing, holy living and devotion to Christ are thusdespised, ridiculed and considered boring and irrelevant. But the day is coming when thesevalues will be turned upside down by our Lord, when “the last shall be first, and the first shall belast.”Therefore we must be prepared for such a change.We need to ask ourselves whether we are among the many or among the few. Do weknow anything of striving and warring against sin, the world and the devil? Are we ready for theMaster's coming to shut the door? The person who can answer these questions satisfactorily isready for the life to come in God’s kingdom.NOTES1W. E. Vine, An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words. Reference LibraryEdition (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1966), 83.2William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke: The Daily Study Bible. Revised Edition,(Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1975), 183.3Ibid., 184.