The Jesus Way - Eugene Peterson
God's way, always, is to use servants.
Servants:
men and women without standing,
without accomplishment, without influence.
The core element in a servant identity is not being God,
not being in charge, not taking the initiative.
Or, to put it positively,
a servant enters into what has already been decided by another,
what is already going on,
alert to the gestures and guidance of the Master.
The servant doesn't know the whole story,
doesn't know the end from the beginning.
All the while he is also aware that
there is far more going on,
both good and evil, than he has any knowledge of.
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He lives, in other words, in a mystery but not in confusion.
A good servant is ever eager
to trust and obey and honor God
as the sovereign who is personal and present -
Yahweh:God here and now.
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