Often people regard being a ’servant’ is similar to being worthless. Why? This is because there’s no significance to that. No status, no money and worst, being treated like dogs all for the sake of making the masters look a little better in his position.
What if you are a servant of the king? Top that up, you work and suffer so that it makes the king look more glorious. The works and sufferings may be to be a leader and teach the people. Well, we all know being a leader isn’t just a simple thing. It requires responsibility, time, energy and effort. It requires you to handle many things go from places to places and give up on things you enjoy to do. Now that may not seems so suffering as it is. As a leader, we don’t only face challenges from the work itself, that is to handle and ensure all things goes well, but we face pressure and people’s mocking rejection, threats and so on from other people. There’s physical and mental suffering to that as we do this work.
I’m talking in terms of our world today. People go to work and under pressure from their bosses, as well as financial problems, and relationship matters with their family and so on. Even so the CEO, as a leader has problems. A servant here refers largely to all where they are somewhat enslave to do work. Why? to earn a living, to have a better life and so on. Some others may have other problems they are enslaved to.
What if your master, your king, that cause you to be enslaved is God? Think for a moment, would you complain of the work you do? That lead us to the think, “what work would he give us to do? I thought God would come to make our lives peaceful, less stressful and make us feel abundant in everything. All opposite matters are therefore wrong.”
I like how the speaker for today puts it, such that we humans love and only wants to hear of things we want to hear. If I come to you and tell you that you’re worth nothing, not even worth a drop of life, what would you do? If I say you’re just a piece of shit, how would you react? Same goes for, IF the bible says that you are to SUFFER in this world, you are to go out and tell the world that Christ IS the Lord, you’ll be despise for His name sake, you’ll face persecutions, rejections, and worst things about to happen, the big question comes, WHAT would YOU do?
Preachers around the world talk about God has send his son to die for us, so we live a victorious life, an abundance provided by God. Why then, does people like Paul, Timothy, and so many others live in the likeness that they are being suffering daily with no end. They are as well in the times of after-Christ, just living out their life to share the truth. How are we so very different if God calls each and every Christian to share the gospel. Preachers around the world can use things that people wants to hear to attract its audience. If you were to say that you just downloaded a new movie from the internet and I say that it is wrong, delete it, you’ll never want to approach me with such a matter anymore. But if I were to say, “Oh, great, what movie is that? shall we watch together?” I somehow belong to your clique of friends.
What then is that people want to hear? Truth or lies. If your wife come back and lie to you something, hasn’t she betrayed your trust if you found out? Would hearing a lie cheer you up if you found out? If something is wrong, would you then change for the better or continue to live in wrong because everyone is doing? There’s punishment for wrong doings. There are people who in life, regrets that they should have studied harder in life to get a better job, they should abstain from committing adultery after they lost their wife, they should have listen to what their dad says after he died and so on. Lies, brings death and despair, and I would like to tell you that LIES OF THE WORLD GETS YOU TO HELL. Truth hurts but its the truth and that would save your very life.
Anyway, I’m getting off the topic. In the bible, Paul, a servant of Christ wrote to Timothy of the same faith with him. This simply means that both of them believe in Christ and does the work of the Lord. Paul urges Timothy in 1 Tim 4: 6-16, to do a number of things. Be a good servant. Have nothing to do with irreverent and silly myths. Rather train yourself in godliness. Why? compared to your daily workout in the gym or if you do workout your body, godliness is way better for it is of value in every way. Paul considers working out your godliness far better than working out your body for it holds LIFE in the present and to come. Then in v10, we see Paul mentions that we(Paul and Timothy) toil and strive, because our hope set on the living God who is the Savior of all people, ESPECIALLY to those who believe. See to it that Paul says that they toil and strive. In Romans 5:3-5, Paul mentions that he rejoiced in his sufferings, knowing that sufferings produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope, a hope that does not put us to shame…. I’m not saying that we should look for suffering, in fact we have more than enough suffering already. What I want to point out is that, those who share the gospel i.e. being the servant of Christ WILL suffer. When we do, we endure. If we do not, we fall to be like of the world. When we endure, it builds our character. Having this character will make us wait for the living hope that will never fail us or put us to shame. Those who fail along the way, will have given up in their lust for worldly pleasure and be nothing more than trash.
This seems harsh but if this is the truth, what would you do? If I lie, what more benefit do I get from deceiving you. If I do not, there should something you should do to change. Of course, I do not expect you to trust blindly in all I see. Pick up the bible, here’s the references, Romans 5: 3-5, Romans 10:15, Mark 3:35, Timothy 4:6-16, Titus 1-2, John 21. There are many more. These are references that urges us to share the gospel as Christian, servant of Christ that we are to share the gospel and they are sufferings that comes along. Why teach? because its very important, that Christ is coming and that we are set free from being a slave to sin. Now that you know the truth, what do you do? live in sin? No, live upright and righteous for the sake of Christ. Not because you want to earn you way to heaven but if you know what’s wrong, don’t do it. It’s like telling a child, “Don’t play with fire.” If the parents were lying, what benefit is there. But if the danger is there by all means, stop! and change.
Paul urges Timothy in 1 Tim 4:11. to command and teach these things. What things? Godliness. In Titus 2, Paul urges Titus, teach what accords with sound doctrine and the whole chapter explains what and why teach sound doctrine, for Godliness, that’s why. There’s an high importance for teaching godliness. Oh, for some you might ask what is godliness. It encompasses a wide area. Doing God’s will is, living right is, more than that, living a Christ -like life is godliness. Hard? Start running the race.
Then again, if this is the truth, question, are you going to live your life in lies? Workers work hard, athlete spends so much time training, students spends so much time studying. I do not deny that those are not important but those are ways that you can glorify God but if you would to put as much time to work out godliness as you spend time on those. what are the outcome? Can you consider yourself a servant of Christ. As christian, we know our reward is in heaven.
That’s all for now.































