Another look at service

Another look at service.

Luke I7: 7 - 10

Think about this. You have a servant that is ploughing. Or you have a servant that is taking *care of your sheep. When he comes in from his work, you would not say to him, “Sit down and eat"

It is easy to read this message and say Jesus is encouraging some form of slavery. Actually, the type of government at the time of Jesus was Monarchial. The royals were in authority and had slaves who they owned. And Jesus used the reality of that time to explain the concept of service to God.

In today's time, except a person is forcefully subjected which is illegal no one is a slave. The world works by the barter system, which is exchanging service for money and the Kingdom system, which is sowing and reaping. That means at this time Jesus may explain the parable in a different way:

This is my opinion:

7 Think about this. You have a staff whom you have paid or agreed to pay a certain sum for certain work hours that is ploughing. Or you have a servant that is taking *care of your sheep. When he comes in from his work, you would not say to him, “Sit down and eat.” if you still have a job for that staff and it is still within work hours which you are paying for.

The boldened fonts are my additions.

Now, this is Jesus showing and depicting God as the  King of Kings. But we know also that God is love and He cares deeply for us. So even though we are servants, we are certain also that we are sons and if sons, heirs and He has chosen to preserve us.

Isaiah 49: 8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee.

God looks after us with all diligence. And we continue to put our trust in him. His preservation can come through any means he so chooses. Mostly, he blesses the work of our hands, whether that exchanged for money in the barter system (Jacob exchanged service for Cattle from is in-law Laban) or that sown and reaped in the Kingdom system. Both systems are God's ideas.

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