Treated Like Servants

We are servants of the King of Heaven and Earth. Religion typically teaches that a minister is in charge, but minister is a foreign word for servant.

On good days, we can step into the place of being a servant. We can even enjoy serving Jesus by serving the least of His people at times. A good test of our maturity in humility is how we respond to being treated like servants.

A position of humility does not demand respect. When we are demanding respect before we serve, we are probably outside the small sphere of “love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.
Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man in His external form,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—even to death on a cross.
For this reason God also highly exalted Him
and gave Him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
(Philippians 2:3-10 HCSB ©®)