Our Duty

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say. ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’

                                                                           Luke 17:10

               As I’ve been learning all week about being a servant I learn that I am an unworthy servant. An unworthy servant of my King and Master. As the Lord is my Master I am His servant, living a life dedicated to obeying Him and listening to what He tells me. What does a servant do for a master? A servant serves his master, gives things to the master, talks to others about his master, and lives a life devoted to his master. That sounds like the life of a Christian to me. Serving, giving, and living in the name of my master, Jesus Christ. Nothing I do in my life should be for my own glory or advancement, but His. Because that is the life He has called us to when we accept Him and begin our life knowing Him and drawing closer to Him. As Ephesians 6:6 says, “but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” Following His will with our hearts, not just with our minds and bodies, but with our hearts; our whole being. And to have the mind set of being an unworthy bondservant I will begin to see God being glorified and not myself. Because that is what my duty is as a servant of Christ, to glorify Him. Being a servant of Christ I am also an heir with Him. In Romans 8, Paul says “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs- heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.” I am a servant of Christ, and also His child and heir. Receiving all the blessings He pours on us and all the future glory He will get. I am not a servant of sin and not a servant by His making me to be one. I have made the decision by His grace to become His servant and become a slave to righteousness. Knowing that I am also a child and heir with Him. He is so beyond worthy of my minute life of service towards Him. And even though I am an unworthy servant, I receive all His blessings! My mind can’t even wrap around the mercy and unexplainable love of this act of grace He has bestowed on us.

Application- knowing I am His child, write down ways I can honor Him and serve Him as my master.