I Peter 3:1-7 ERV, “In the same way, you wives should be willing to serve your husbands. Then, even those who have refused to accept God’s teaching will be persuaded to believe because of the way you live. You will not need to say anything.  Your husbands will see the pure lives that you live with respect for God.  It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful.  No, your beauty should come from inside you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. That beauty will never disappear. It is worth very much to God.  It was the same with the holy women who lived long ago and followed God. They made themselves beautiful in that same way. They were willing to serve their husbands.  I am talking about women like Sarah. She obeyed Abraham, her husband, and called him her master. And you women are true children of Sarah if you always do what is right and are not afraid. In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives in an understanding way, since they are weaker than you. You should show them respect, because God gives them the same blessing he gives you—the grace of true life. Do this so that nothing will stop your prayers from being heard.”

If I’m to be like Christ, I must be a servant to everyone in my life. I must serve my boss at work, my husband and children at home, even the people that surround me. Now being a servant is not being a doormat, being a servant is to attend or wait upon others. Jesus was a servant to all. He didn’t come into this world to be served as most kings do, he came to serve. Everywhere he went, he did good to others. He put others needs before his own. He healed, taught, raised the dead, pouring himself out but never empty, because he spent time with the Father getting filled back up.

I’ve had this on my mind for awhile now but was unsure how to pen this properly. I’ve heard ‘submission’ teaching for years that just didn’t set right with my spirit. Perhaps it was my observation of the misuse of the teaching or maybe I just didn’t understand what was trying to be conveyed. Usually those teaching that wives should submit to their husbands, seem to brush over Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives the same as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.” Being a servant is called grace, unconditional, undeserved favor. Jesus was our supply of grace, he was and is a giver or supplier of everything we need and he is our example of servanthood.

The law demands and can never be satisfied, but grace constantly supplies. I love that. If I love like Jesus, then doing and giving out of his vast supply of grace should be as natural as breathing. I never have to think about my own needs being met, mine are met by Jesus who supplies me with seed so that I can sow and never lack. Serving should be the only thing I think about. How can I serve him? How can I serve her? Father, what would you have me say, what would you have me do? Wait, so my needs aren’t important? Yes, but the way to get your needs met is just like everything else in the Kingdom of God, to get you must give. 

I could preach a sermon on this, there is just so much to it, but time doesn’t allow me this morning. I pray instead that the Lord will begin to open the eyes of your understanding and show you what His Kingdom looks like; a bunch of servants running around trying to out do each other. Shining bright in the earth, healing the sick, raising the dead. Selfless servants at home, at work, at school, at church, at the store. Wherever life takes you, tell God you want to be His servant, then go have fun shining in the earth.