{"id":105735,"date":"2020-12-07T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=105735"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:42:33","slug":"17-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/17-m\/","title":{"rendered":"17.m. “Be a Servant worthy of the calling of Christ learning to serve and give”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark 10:45\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the ancient world, a ransom was money paid to purchase, then set free, a slave.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cRansom\u201d appears twice in the New Testament when Jesus gave His reason for coming to earth: He came \u201cto give His life a ransom for many\u201d (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45). That is, He purchased with His own life those who were slaves to sin and set them free to live a new life. What\u2019s interesting about the ransom Jesus paid is what that payment is connected to: service. Jesus said He came to serve by giving His life a ransom for many. Jesus\u2019 own life and actions illustrate that there is a price to service. In Jesus\u2019 case, the price was extremely high. We may never be called on to serve others by dying for them physically, but we are called on daily to serve others by dying to our selfish desires. When Paul wrote about Christ as a servant, he wrote, \u201cLet this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus\u201d\u2014that is, the mind of a servant (Philippians 2:5). Be prepared today to pay whatever price Christ-like service requires.<\/p>\n

[Be] willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dallas Willard once advised Christians to serve the Lord with a certain amount of secrecy\u2014not in deceit but for the purpose of intentionally wanting God to bring our hunger for fame and recognition under control. It\u2019s unhealthy when we want all our good deeds to be known. As we serve others, we are serving God. But if we\u2019re eager for everyone to know how well we\u2019ve served, how humbly we\u2019ve helped, or how hard we\u2019ve worked, our motivations are questionable. True humility serves quietly and finds satisfaction in serving as Jesus did. Perhaps even today, an occasion will arise for serving someone as a member of God\u2019s Secret Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark 10:45\u00a0 \u00a0 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. In the ancient world, a ransom was money paid to purchase, then set free, a slave.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cRansom\u201d appears twice in the New Testament when Jesus gave His reason for … Continue reading “17.m. “Be a Servant worthy of the calling of Christ learning to serve and give””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105741,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105735\/revisions\/105741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}