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Updated: May 5, 2025
'Whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching. It is character rather than conduct, and conduct only as an index of character disposition rather than deeds that makes it possible for Christ to be hereafter our Servant-Lord. And the character is more definitely described in the former words. Loins girded, lights burning, and a waiting which is born of love.
So the Servant-Lord and the servants, serving and served, are swayed in both by the same motive and rejoice in the interchange of offices and tokens of love. III. Mark the earthly service which leads to the heavenly rest.
His girding Himself for service expresses not only the lowliness of His majesty and the beneficence of His power, but His use of all which He has and is for the blessing of those whom He keeps and blesses. I need not remind you, I suppose, how in this same wonderful picture of the Servant-Lord there is taught the perpetual if we may so say, the increased lowliness of the crowned Christ.
I. Then we have, first of all, the wonderful revelation of the Servant-Lord. For the name of dignity is employed over and over again in the immediate context, and so makes more wonderful the assumption here of the promise of service.
On this He cures them by a still more pathetic and wonderful example, His own; and He says, 'I, in My lowliness and service, am to be your Pattern. In Me see the basis of all true greatness, and the right use of all influence and authority. The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. I. So, then, let us look first at the perfect life of service of the Servant-Lord.
Like the clear sea, weedless and stainless, that laves the marble steps of the palaces of Venice, the deep ocean of Christ's service to man was pure to the depths throughout. That perfect ministry of the Servant-Lord was rendered with strange spontaneity and cheerfulness.
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