Master or servant?

 

There are basically two types of people in this world: masters and servants. Even those who are currently unemployed have been or will fall in one of these categories.

Problems arise when employees/servants, start taking themselves for the employers, the bosses. When they start thinking that they are free to do or not to do what is required of/from them.

However, Heaven or better still, the Kingdom of Heaven, knows only one category of people: servants. GOD the Father is obviously without categorisation.

This is what the Bible says of angels (Ps 103.20-21): "Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!" Heb 1:14 further adds that they are all ministering spirits sent out to serve. Though they are mighty, they still obey His word ad do His will.

This is also what Jesus, the LORD, the Son of GOD, says of Himself (Jn 4:34): My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Nobody can survive without food. If you don’t eat, sooner rather than later, people will come to carry your corpse. It is not written anywhere that Jesus spent 30 years on earth without eating because He had supernatural abilities. Anyway, Jesus is not talking here of the common food that we eat every day to sustain our physical bodies. He is talking of the true food which sustains our true ‘self’, our inner being, that part of us which will never perish and that will spend eternity in bliss or damnation. He speaks of the Bread of life which is the Word of God. Indeed, He also said: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Mat 4:4).

My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. In other words, what kept Him alive was fulfilling His Master’s will. Come to think of it, the truth of the matter is that any employee/worker/servant lives through the way he/she carries out the orders of their boss or master. If they do it with negligence, they will be sacked and this will have a direct effect on their livelihood. If they are faithful, they will serve long and even be promoted.

We are not bigger than Jesus, our Master, but every fully-trained disciple will be like Him (Lk 6:40). Besides, Paul reminded the employers who could have been tempted to boast that they were also subjected to a Master in heaven with Whom there was no partiality (Eph 6:9).

So, Master or servant? We are all free to choose which legislature we want to operate under: the world’s or the Kingdom’s. I pray that we all make the right choice, but more importantly, that every action of ours may be a demonstration thereof.

God bless you with a great week.