{"id":3607,"date":"2014-02-06T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:13:48","slug":"gods-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/gods-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S SERVANT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Matthew 25:21<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>His master replied, \u2018Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master\u2019s happiness!\u2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">The concept of a \u201cservant spirit\u201d intrigues me. Not only that, but it compels me to strive to become a faithful servant. As I study the pages of Scripture, I find that my heroes of the faith&#8211;such as Joseph and Daniel&#8211;demonstrated servanthood. As I study the lives of those servants in <em>God\u2019s Word<\/em>, I find many common characteristics. They were not focused on their own needs, but on the needs of the master they served.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Joseph was below the status of a servant&#8211;he was a slave. Even though his world had crashed in around him, he gave himself totally to serve his master. I can barely imagine the long hours it took for Joseph to learn the Egyptian language, but he knew he had to learn it to be the best servant he possibly could.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Another quality of a servant that I see in Bible heroes is their sense of responsibility. They do not do the bare minimum, but demonstrate a self-sacrificial attitude. They never seem to be deterred by mistreatment. Their service is motivated by a desire to please God by the way they treat their human master. <strong>I want to be God\u2019s servant!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 25:21 His master replied, \u2018Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master\u2019s happiness!\u2019 The concept of a \u201cservant spirit\u201d intrigues me. Not only that, but it compels me to strive to become a faithful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}