Be a Servant

And a very good morning to you! It is Wednesday morning, 23rd March, the year 2022. And this is your friend, Angus Buchan with a thought for the day.

“After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.”

John 13:5

The ultimate servant, oh yes, the Son of God - Can you believe it, washing dirty, stinky feet! And a pair of those feet were about to leave and betray Him for thirty pieces of silver and yet he still washed them. Jesus says to us today, if we want to be the greatest, we have to be prepared to become the least. I looked up the dictionary, the word servant: “a person employed to perform duties for others.”

You know, I want to tell you about a man who you have probably heard of, Charles Colson. Charles Colson was the right-hand man of President Nixon when he was the President of the United States of America. He was a ruthless man, Charles Colson. He was known as The Hatchet Man. What a terrible name! They said he was ruthless, he would even walk over his own mother’s grave to get to the top. Then the terrible Watergate Scandal broke out and Richard Nixon told lies and was impeached and taken out of office. But you see, a President had never been put in jail before and so the right-hand man, Charles Colson, went to jail on behalf of the President. But that is where his life really began. That is where he met the Greatest Servant of all, Jesus Christ. This is what Charles Colson said: “It is not what we do that matters but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us.”

God doesn’t want our success. He wants us. He doesn’t demand our achievements, He demands our obedience. And after he came out of jail, having met Jesus Christ, Charles Colson started a huge prison fellowship ministry and eventually went to be with the Lord, as a servant of God.

Today, go out and be a servant of the Lord.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.