When I was in high school, I can remember being asked to care for my neighbor’s plants, giving them water while they were on vacation. At other times, I remember being asked to care for the neighbor’s dog, giving it food and water and taking it walking each day. When I was a senior in high school, I remember being asked to watch the two young children of a different neighboring family while the parents went to work for the day. In all these instances, I knew I was being entrusted with a responsibility – watching over the children being the greatest of the three examples. The greater the value of what was entrusted to me, the more I was focused and attentive. If I did not recognize the value of what others had entrusted to me, it is likely that I could have been negligent and uncaring.
“You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”