"For who is greater, the one who reclines at table, the master,
or the one who serves? It it not the one who reclines at the table?
But I am in your midst as One Who serves."
(Luke 22:27)
Being a servant is one of the most important lessons for Christians to learn;
but unfortunately, we often have to work through gross misconceptions.
We have fears about entrusting ourselves to any boss, but we must learn
in our spiritual journey that this Master is unlike any other.
He will not abuse us or misuse us. He has our greatest interest at heart.
He encourages us through our servanting to be all that we can be and then
gives us his own Holy Spirit to empower us to become so. This Master
is One who even laid down His life for those who were His servants.
He is a Master unlike any other.
Not to be feared, He is worthy of our service.
Many of us think servanting means losing ourselves in such a way that
we become people without personality, people without original thinking
ability, people without giftedness. But when one serves this Master,
the opposite is true. He makes us full, complete human beings
filled with His own image, with His own amazing mentality.
Paradoxically, while teaching us to be more like Him,
we become more of whom He created us to be.
"Servanting"
A devotional reading by
Karen Burton Mains
(1943-
Author and Co-Director along with her husband, David,
of Mainstay Ministries in Wheaton, Illinois
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