Please read the passage before the commentary here.
Gird your loins. That means taking off your coat, rolling up your leaves, putting on your work shoes. This is not the way we celebrate weddings. It was not the way to celebrate weddings in Jesus’ day.
In those days the groom would go to the bride’s home, knock on the door and bring his bride to his home in procession. Now, if the procession should pass Aunt Getrude’s home, she would be very much offended if she did not get to meet her niece’s new husband. The same would apply even more so for the bride’s maternal and paternal grandparents. On and on, slowly would the procession make its way to the party. Blessed would be the servants in charge of catering the wedding party if they were still on the job when the wedding procession arrived.
In our time the situation has changed. We are going to our own wedding. We are bride and groom with the Lord Jesus in the marriage being celebrated in heaven. Are we alert to what we are doing?
Someone said that we need to be alert. ALert is a member of the Lord’s Early Response Team. Are we part of the Lord’s team, responding to the Lord’s call. Are we part of the Lord’s bridal procession?
Peter asked Jesus if the parable were meant for him and the other disciples. Jesus’ answer was to ask him who else would be the faithful servant and caterer. In one sense we are the caterers and in another sense, we are being catered to by the Lord himself.
Here on earth the Lord caters to us himself as food and drink for us. Then we are to cater to others by being the food and drink that nourishes them with the word of God. What we receive in Communion, we are to share with those beyond us. One day, when our procession is ended, we shall arrive at the fulness of the heavenly banquet and find the Lord Jesus himself serving us.