Our Price To Serve!
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served,
but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Mark 10: 45
In ancient worlds, a ransom was money paid to purchase,
then set free, a slave. “Ransom” appears twice in the New
Testament when Jesus gave His reason for coming to earth:
He came “to give His life a ransom for many”
(Matthew 20: 28; Mark 10:
45).
That is, He purchased with His own life
those who were slaves to sin and set
them free to live a new life.
What’s interesting about the ransom Jesus paid is what that
payment is connected to: service. Jesus said He came to serve
by giving His life a ransom for many. Jesus’ own life and actions
illustrate that there's a price to service. In Jesus’ case, the price
was extremely high.
We may never be called on to serve others by dying for them
physically, but we are called on daily to serve others by dying
to selfish desires. When Paul wrote about Christ as a servant,
he wrote, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ
Jesus”—that is, the mind of a servant (Philippians 2: 5).
Be prepared today to pay whatever
price Christ-like service requires.
"Be willing to do those things that seem
unimportant in human estimation but
count as everything to God."
Oswald Chambers
