He was more than a servant. But He dressed and acted as so. What kind of man, who has nothing would die for someone who has so much and isn’t willing to spare to help the servant? A servant very mighty indeed. He holds history to a standard that no other can compare to. He’s done so much with so little. Sometimes we like to overcomplicate things and make a story more dramatic than what it was. However the simple version of this story isn’t simple at all. It’s simply magnificent.
This is the story of a servant. There was a servant that had two parents. He and his parents had to flee from their hometown for the killing of all newborns following up to three years old. History recounts the birth of the servant and some wise men who brought him gifts as a child. The parents visited a town, accidentally leaving the child servant behind. They went back for him to find him talking to some of the teachers in town. In between being a young child and turning roughly forty there is no recounted history of the servant’s life. At the age of forty the servant shows back up. There are countless accounts of him helping other poor people like himself. Although He wasn’t just helping them. He was healing people! He helped the blind people see. He brought people back from the dead. He helped the crippled men walk again. How can a servant man, who has nothing, no money, no medicine, nothing, do all of this? I’m simply in love with the excellence Jesus delivered to the world playing part as just a servant.
I hope as you read this that you don’t begin to think I’m watering down the truth. That’s not my goal here. My goal is that you would see how simple the Gospel is not to overthink it, but the true power of the cross in it to seek and save those which are lost and run after God with arms wide open yourself. We put so much unnecessary emphasis on a story that will always be greater than any other to come.
It’s all so humbling to see that Jesus had absolutely nothing to share the Gospel to those around Him. Let me correct myself. He had His Father. His Father supplied everything. God will provide everything if we will obey what He wants us to do. If Jesus is the son of a King, then why did He choose to be a servant with nothing? First off, He was getting rid of all excuses as to having no ability to share the gospel with someone who needed hope. Second off, He was living proof that through God we can do all things. All things from money, to food, to healing, and resurrection. Jesus showed today’s world that has SO much on their own, that they needed absolutely nothing but God.
So tell me, how is it that a servant like Him who has nothing, give away everything He has, and die for someone like me who has so much?
In this blog, I just wanted to give us all a chance to think of how magnificent Jesus is.
So how much more magnificent is it that after He died, He came back to life? I can’t imagine what it’d be like. One day a servant is talking to me about so many wise things about God, all of a sudden he’s killed by my government, and I’m not sure if there;s a logical reason the servant was executed. With my natural mind, I don’t believe I’ll ever see Him again. Then three days pass, and there’s already an obituary that he’s dead, but I hear word that he’s come back from the dead. If it were me, I’d have a very hard time believing this. Yet, I hear from the people closest to Him that it’s true.
That’s more than a story in itself. I know a man, who was a servant. Although He was more than a servant. He was a Savior. He’s alive and well sitting at the right of His Father in His Father’s Kingdom.
How is it that on a day like today, we’ve chosen to remember a truly remarkable account in History that changed an entire World from beginning to end? I don’t want to overlook a day like today. I want to remember every day was made because of TODAY.
