Listen to ourselves speak sometimes, and we sound as though we believe the Lord is our servant, but Jesus set the record straight,
“And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do’” (Luke 17:7–10).
Let us remember that the Lord has saved us, and not we Him! Therefore, we are His servants, obligated to serve Him forever, and He is not obligated to serve us, unless He chooses to do so.
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Who was Jesus speaking to when He uttered the words of our text? Was He speaking to a group of lazy, spoiled, self-centered rebels who served only themselves? No. He was speaking to the twelve. He was speaking to His best men – the ones who had already left everything to follow him! If anyone should have built up some merit points for special entitlement treatment, it should have been them. Yet it was to them that He said, “So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”
– from a sermon by the late Dave Redick, “Squashing the Entitlement Attitude”
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Thanks, Tom, for your comments, and how that teaching in the Bible has been used, to which I say, “Amen!”
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