The Service of Sonship

I have been so impacted by the message of the kingdom.  For years I had maintained a view of myself that I was still a sinner saved by grace.  While I was a sinner, when Jesus came into my life he removed my sin as far as the east is from the west.  He transferred me from the domain of darkness to the kingdom of His son.  I'm not a sinner anymore, I'm a saint who occasionally sins.  I'm not a professional sinner, I'm a lover of God who sometimes misses the mark.  It is so important that we embrace our royal identity.  If we don't then we will lack the confidence required to walk in victory (Hebrews 10:35).  However, lately i've noticed that we can go to extremes.  We embrace our royal identity so much that it becomes entitlement.  It's great that we embrace our royal identity but we need to remember that we are also called to be servants.  After all, Jesus led with the mindset of a King and the heart of a servant.

In Philippians 2 it says that while Jesus existed in the form of God he did not see equality with God something to be grasped, but he took on the form of a bond-servant.  Jesus knew his mission was to serve.  He was here to serve his father, first, and then to serve the world by revealing the Father's love to them.  For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son.  Jesus embraced the fathers mission of bringing His love to the world.  Sometimes when we embrace a kingdom mentality we can begin to see ourselves in competition with others.  We feel the need to prove our royal identity to our fellow believers.  Our identity becomes in what we can do instead of who we are.  Jesus never needed to prove himself to anyone.  In fact he didn't entrust himself to any man because He was here to do only what he saw the father doing.  In other words, His first priority was to serve the father.  We need to maintain our royal identity all the while become the greatest servants the world has ever seen.  It's not a question of embracing a royal identity or being a servant.  It is a statement of serving others through our royal identity.  It's not either/or it is both/and.  When we take on the heart of a servant we reveal the Love of God to the world around us.


That's the view from here...