Luke 17:7-10
“Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, `Come at once and sit down at table’? Will he not rather say to him, `Prepare supper for me, and gird yourself and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, `We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'”
Homily:
The concept that we have done this, so God will do that. The transactional mindset. It is a recipe for sustained suffering.
A sustained relationship with God is the journey we are on, the end we seek, and in itself, the reward.