Experience of Christ in Serving as a Slave

The Lord Jesus Christ is the best pattern of one who served as a slave. In his humanity, He served God the Father by serving the people on earth at His time as a slave. The gospel of Mark recorded His service as a slave. 

Today, the same Slave-Saviour as the Spirit is in me! I have been graced to learn this lesson in many practical ways. A couple of weeks ago, in the proofreading of the New Testament Recovery Version in Kannada, I needed to serve the saints who came to serve. From the very beginning, my attitude was, I am a salve of God. I never allowed  the enemy to take hold of my mind to question my service. Though I had the rights to command and dictate works to be done, I was constantly was under the deep impression of being a slave of God. Therefore, I am also a slave of the saints. Whenever there was work to do, I did not hesitate to do nor pass the job for someone else to do. I simply exercised myself to serve as  a slave.

That said, I also was very aware of the fact that it was impossible for me to serve as a slave. By nature, I am not a slave. In fact, I would never serve as a slave given my own choice. Thank the Lord for the truth in the Bible that transformed my way of thinking and way of service. I also knew for sure that the Spirit of the Lord jesus is within me, the Spirit of the Slave-Saviour Jesus. Only by exerxsing my spirit to be joined in oneness with the Lord, I could actually serve as a slave.

Whenever the brothers wanted me to get things done, it was an opportunity for me to exercise to serve as a slave. Whenever the sister wanted me to get things done, especially in their shopping and official works, they give me an opportunity to serve them as a slave. Whenever the saints who came to serve were physically ill or weak, it was an opportunity to serve them as slave; by taking them to clinic and taking care of their medical needs. In many practical services, the Lord gave me opportunity after opportunity to experience Him as a slave.

Even in dealing with the venue management, I had the rights to demand and get things done. But the Lord reminded me to hold on to the very best and the very base position of being a slave. When there could be debate or argument based on the charges levied upon us for using the venue, I simple did not have any desire to fight back. As long as the accounting were properly done in righteousness, it was my rightful duty to pay righteousnely what was due. As a slave, I had no guts to fight back or argue. These are nothing compared  to what the Lord had become when he was on the earth. 

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men; And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross. Philippians 2:5-8

What I experienced was just a glimpse. There will be many ore opportunities to experience the Lord as a slave. This is just a foretaste of experiencing Christ in serving as a slave.