A Call to Kingdom Service

Now in our culture “being a servant” no longer is attached to a trade or profession, it is easy to take these passages as if they were an ideal. Yet in Paul’s day, the call to be a servant had concrete implications. A “servant” in Bible times referenced a profession, calling, or class. It was not simply a mindset, but something you actually became.

This ought to instruct us! Truly in Christ we are not simply to cultivate a servant’s heart, but we are to view ourselves as nothing less than a bondservant of God! Isaiah understood this quite well. We have been examining that which went into the making of Isaiah into a servant of God (Isaiah 6:1-7). Isaiah 6 details Isaiah’s formal commissioning as a servant of the Lord. And yet we’ve seen that this passage contains far more than Isaiah’s commissioning. What is written here contains principles which can be said to be true of ALL servants of Christ… including you and me!