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In the first post entitled The God Who Serves, we looked at two Scripture portions concerning the servanthood of Jesus. One was in Luke 12:35–40, where Jesus states that when He returns, He will cause His servants to sit down at table and then serve them dinner. This isn’t an act that we would anticipate from the Lord of all creation. He is the victorious One, who conquered sin, death, and hell. Every knee shall bow before Him, the sovereign Lord. Consequently, we are overwhelmed by the truth spoken from His own mouth that He will become our waiter at His return. The second passage was from John 21:1–13, where Jesus, after His resurrection, serves His disciples breakfast. We looked at the contrast between how Jesus ran this “event” and how we might. We should ask, “Why didn’t Jesus lead this event the way we would?” He is, after all, our example as well as our Lord. Surely, as the sovereign and omniscient God, He must have thoughtfully planned this occasion. It is impossible to think that Jesus did not know that He was displaying an example of leadership that early morning.
The God of the Christian faith is more amazing than one can put into words. We try, and this article will be an inadequate attempt to do that, which will surely become evident in only a few moments. As stunned and joyful as a believer may often be at who He is and what He has done, His nature remains simply too magnificent for His followers to grasp. One of His characteristics that staggers us is His servitude. How can this perfectly sovereign, powerful, intelligent God be a servant?