We don’t like to be associated with the word “Servant” it piss us up, infact, some person will fight you, if you dare use that word “servant” when addressing them, but Jesus made us to know that if anyone wants to be the great in the kingdom of God, such a person must be ready to become a servant.
In Matthew 20:26-28 It says”Not so with you, Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must be your slave, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.MATTHEW 23:11 NKJV
He who is the greatest among you shall be your servant. What do you think of when you hear the word servant? Someone who’s pathetic, without will or purpose? Our false definition of the word servant is expressed in The Sarcastic Beatitudes by J. B. Phillips, who also wrote a paraphrase of the New Testament: “Blessed are the pushers, for they get their way. Blessed are the hard-boiled, for they never get hurt. Blessed are those who complain, for they get all the attention. Blessed are the blasé, for they never worry about sin. Blessed are the slave-drivers, for they get results.
Blessed are the greedy, for they get what they want.” How did Jesus introduce Himself? “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life” (Mk 10:45 NIV). And He practiced what He preached. Listen to the sound of water splashing in a basin as God incarnate sponges the grime from the feet of His unde- serving disciples, then says, “He who is the greatest among you shall be your servant.” Some of us wish we could echo His hu- mility. Ruth Calkin, author and poet, expressed that wish in her poem “I Wonder”: “You know, Lord, how I serve You with great emotional fervor in the limelight, how eagerly I speak for You at the market square, how I radiate what I promote at a fellowship group.
But how would I react, I wonder, if You pointed to a basin of water and asked me to wash the calloused feet of a bent and wrinkled old woman, day after day and month after month, in a room where nobody saw and nobody knew.
I wonder? Do you also wonder?!” Remember God alone knows the shape of our souls and the contour of our characters, therefore he is able to help those who has chosen the way of servanthood, to serve and do His will. May the good Lord grant us help as choose to serve him in all capacity in Jesus mighty name.
