Tuesday November 14, 2017
In relation to God, we are servants. Does this statement evoke negative feelings in you? It should not. For, we are talking not about the kind of human slavery that is despicable, but about servanthood that flows from freedom and love. It is the kind of servanthood Jesus showed towards his Father and to each of us. He declared: “The Son of Man has come not to be served, but to serve” (Matt 20:28). In such a servanthood of love, we do what is asked of us; and even more than what is asked of us. We do not claim any special favors and privileges for what we have done, for the love that wells up in us when we do service to God is its own reward.
How different the world would be if we were to do service to God and our fellow human beings and obey God’s commandments as our sacred duty, rather than clamor for our every right and privilege!
