"Be ready, dressed for service, and keep your lamps lit, like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding. As soon as he comes and knocks, they will open the door to him. Happy are those servants whom the master finds wide-awake when he comes. Truly, I tell you, he will put on an apron, and have them sit at table, and he will wait on them. Happy are those servants, if he finds them awake when he comes at midnight or daybreak!" - Luke 12:35-38
(JESUS develops the parable of the servant expecting his master's return. This servant is here contrasted with the rich of the preceding paragraph [12:13] who was only concerned about a long and comfortable life. The servant works for GOD.
Happy are those servants whom the master finds wide-awake. Wide-awake, that is, concerned about tomorrow's world. Wide-awake also means being aware of the truth; we do not consent to call 'good' evil, and 'evil' good; we do not forgive ourselves for allowing evil and we are not intimidated before injustice.)
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