Watching Servants

Our Lord would not only have us waiting, but watching for His coming. He looks for watching servants. As the night becomes far spent, and watch after watch passes, such know it cannot be long before the Master will come. They listen with increasing watchfulness. Such are watching servants, and such our Lord highly commends. He says, "Verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them." Can anything exceed this testimony of our Lord concerning the servants whom He finds watching? Do we lay it on our consciences as we ought? Is it because it suits His loving heart that we wait and watch?
It surely cannot be long before we shall actually see His face, and be with Him forever. Our Lord, therefore, added, "If he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants." How pleasing, then, to Him is the watching servant!