Well, the book of “Good Behavior” obviously continues in this letter to Titus. Just like yesterday’s first reading, Paul instructs about not just good behavior but excellent behavior, so that if anyone is going to say anything bad about someone, let it not be said against us who have the great responsibility to present and represent the word of God. If anything bad is going to be said about someone, let it be said about the opponent — he will be put to shame, “without anything bad to say about us.”
Makes good sense: Behave!
And Jesustalks about behavior, but specifically about the servant’s behavior. When the servant comes in from the field where he has been working all day, does the Master seat him at table and feed him, the servant? Come on, get real!
He tells the servant to feed me the Master. Jesus asks the ridiculous question of the Master. Does the Master question his command over the servant? Is the Master even grateful; or does he, appropriately, expect of the servant to do the servant’s job?
And Jesus tells us what the good servant would say after having done all that the latter has been commanded to do —
“We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.”
Imagine embracing servanthood like that, and that lovingly!
