NOTES for Luk 17:7-10

The parable of the worthless servant is a typical double-edged sword. On the one hand, who is this servant? The one who will do everything that is commanded. And we are commanded a great deal: to love God, our neighbor, to love one another as Jesus loves us. And he who accomplishes all this to the end can consider himself a “worthless servant.” That is, the greatest saints can only be called thus; what then is to be said of an ordinary person in everyday life!

On the other hand, even the smallest effort in fulfilling the commandments seems to us worthy of special praise and gratitude from God. Any little thing seems worthy of payment at the highest rate. And to reconcile oneself with the fact that the fulfillment of everything planned, it turns out, is not considered something extraordinary, is very difficult.