What do you think God means by "doing" here?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so [b]doing.[/b]

47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

Doing here would refer to work of God. What is work of God , everything we shitting eating jokes just everything if it is for the glory of God. But saving lost souls would make Him proud

SW-User

Well, "so doing" is to have found your very own path, time and place. As per our own unique human reality.

Relevant, in a broader spectrum, is the meeting of Dogen (the 13th century Japanese zen master) who met an old cook from a monastery who was buying produce from a market. Dogen, still searching, still looking for answers to his very own existential questions, said to the old cook:-

"Would you not rather be practicing the Dharma rather than just cooking and providing meals for others?'

The cook just laughed. Dogen still had much to learn.

So doing.

cuteAlien · 22-25, F

well that whole passage is an analogy about the servant continuing to serve the master and do good even when unsupervised. So what He really means is for christians to do the same even after He's gone. Love God and your neighbour all the time, regardless of if you think you're being watched

SW-User

[i]Therefore, if there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place. When we make this very place our own, our practice becomes the actualization of reality (genjōkōan). When we make this path our own, our activity naturally becomes actualized reality (genjōkōan).[/i]

(Dogen, lines from his essay/sermon "Genjokoan")

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