The Agendaless Servant

“Thy will be done” Matthew 6:10 KJV

A number of years ago I read a wonderful missionary book A Sus Ordenes, Senior. The theme of the book was simple. Each of the missionaries to Latin America that were discussed in the book had said one simple phrase to God, “Thy will be done.”  This is the perfect picture of the servant. He has no agenda of His own. His life, his activities, his commitment is to the master. Servants don’t go off doing their own thing around the master’s house. They do what they are told to do and don’t say, “But I’d rather do this instead.”

Jesus was this type of servant. He said in the Garden of Gethsemane “Not my will but Thine be done.”  He repeatedly said in the book of John that He did not speak or act of His own will, but He did what the Father showed Him to do and spoke what the Father told Him to say. He humbled Himself and became a servant as Paul said in Philippians chapter 2. A servant dies to themselves and that is what Christ did for us. The servant does this voluntarily out of love. So let us love our Master.

Precious Savior, Help me to better understand servanthood each day. Amen. 

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