Even self-made men know that they wouldn’t have made it by themselves.
The rule of God is based on the subjects of the kingdom being there to support each other. Love for the king is evident in the love for the neighbour. That kind of rule states clearly that we’re there to serve each other. That rule places the need of the other as crucial. It reinforces how we are there to serve.
That rule is embodied by the King. The King did not come to be served – this in itself is counter-cultural. The message is rammed home on every occasion that you want to reach a position where you’re the top. You wanna be top dog because then everyone is serving you, everyone is doing what they’re doing for you. Everyone is doing it for you and you can sit pretty at the top.
This is not the rule seen in King Jesus. Here the King serves. Comes among those that He looks to rule over and washes their feet. He comes among those He rules and lays His life down for them. He does this to show what kind of rule He is establishing.
It is not the type of rule that is desired in the world. The dynamic is more about working to the point where others will eventually do the work for you. The narrative for so many is working for someone else for a few decades and then finishing work to discover there’s not enough left for them to live on. The realisation that all that time working for someone else didn’t work out too well for them in the long term.
This is why this rule ushered in by King Jesus is different. Here He gives gifts to be able to live. He gives Himself so you’re able to serve. As He does this there is transparency that the King wants all who live under His rule to see how they are served to serve. Not served in order to seek to be served.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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