Servant

Being a mom sometimes feels like being a servant. I am constantly cleaning up messes, fixing meals, and making sure that everyone is healthy, happy, fed, and rested. If I was sick, the whole house would fall apart! At least it seems that way because a servant’s life is performance-based. The definition of servant is a person who performs duties for others; a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant. I always thought that we were servants of the Lord. My performance for the Lord as His servant would be a failure. I would ultimately get sick and things would fall apart. The good news is He is the servant, not us. He died on the cross for us, He dwells in us, and our performance doesn’t matter because He has finished the work for us. Christ has done the work in our hearts, He has given us the Holy Spirit, and He has paid the price for our sins. It is finished. What good news to us! We don’t have to depend on our performance to be righteous in God’s presence.


If we ever hear the words from God, “Well done good and faithful servant,” He isn’t talking to us. God is talking to Christ who He sees in us. Remember, we are clothed in Christ, marked with His blood, our sins are covered in Him, and we are made in His image. Christ is standing before God in our place. He is the servant God is talking to because His performance was perfect. His performance pleases God. Christ is the Mighty Servant through whom we are able to gaze on the face of God and hear sweet words of adoration from our Father. Blessed are those in Christ.