EPHESIANS 3:7-8, Servant to the gospel, least of all

We all know that one person who is super meek and humble. They never are angry because they have been done wrong, they are never upset someone is getting something they aren’t, and they just seem to live life willing to let others have the spotlight and accolades. They are the type of person that you feel you need to stand up for or encourage them to voice their opinion, so they don’t get trampled on by other. You feel like other are taking advantage of their kindness and meekness and it makes you angry at times. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we were all like those people? In our verses today Paul refers to himself as a servant of Jesus Christ but then immediately lets everyone know that he is not the head servant but in stead the least of them all. The man who wrote most of the new testament and is responsible for the way the modern church views our relationship with God said that he was the least of all. That is humility.

Humility is living a life of voluntarily serving Jesus which in turn makes us servant of all. Psalm 138:6 says that God loves and respects the humble while He pushes the prideful away from him. In Luke 14 Jesus gives us an example of how we should live by describing a banquet. When a banquet is giving the most important people set at the front of the table while the people less importance set at the rear of the table. He said we should always just set at the rear of the table and if the host wants us to move up they will ask us to do so but it would be really embarrassing to set at the front of the table and be asked to move to the rear. In God’s kingdom Paul followed this advice and lived a life where he sat at the end of the table and we should as well. We should be a servant to the servants, understanding our worth and value will be weighed in eternity by God and not by our peers on this earth.