“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? (Luke 17:7 ESV)
My initial response is "Who has a servant?" But many of Jesus' hearers would be familiar with the picture from one side or the other. They knew a servant is supposed to serve - that it is a position in life in which one should not expect role-reversal. Somehow in our society, we are always looking for others to serve us: going out to a restaurant to have someone else wait on us; getting someone to change the oil in our car, and so forth. Are we forgetting what it means to be a servant? Do we feel that we deserve to have someone else serve the Lord for us?
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