"But if the servant says: I love my master, my wife and my children do not want to go free" (Exodus 21:5). For this servant no dilemma, there is nothing to choose from. Their decision was never in doubt. His love was his world. The serf was tied to it with everlasting chains of love. He would not be able to leave your love or your home.
servant's life revolved around her love for his master, like Paul, he considered everything else as "dung" in order to win her love. He was the kind of person willing to be neglected so that others could get to know love of his Lord.
This servant valued intimacy with his master over any earthly blessing. Who could care herds, the fields, or wine and oil, when you can have an endless communion and intimacy with the master? His heart overflowed with tenderness for her master and he said it clearly: "I love my master, no I want to be free."
servant What this is saying is simply this: Christ is enough! Nothing in this world has the courage to lose the feeling of his presence. All the wealth and prosperity of all land not can be compared to having a day with him. The pleasures that are at his right hand vastly exceed any ecstasy known to man. Know him, to be where he is, sit together in heavenly places, is more than life itself. Serving, be guided by it, come and go according to its mandate, is to live life at its highest level.
Do I remember you being a child and not a servant? Then I also gently remind him that Jesus was a Son, who "being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and the likeness of men "(Philippians 2:6-7). He may have been as powerful Prince of the Most High, destroying all enemies, however, Christ chose to come as a servant, totally committed to his Father's business.
this dedicated servant we read in Exodus, I thought I had one mission in life, and this was to serve his master. He was not looking for the inheritance, although it is written, "A wise servant shall be imposed unworthy son, and the brothers share the inheritance" (Proverbs 17:2). The love that had made him follow easily from morning till night, every moment he was awake, he lived in voluntary servitude to his master. He was driven only by love - not guilty, nor sense of obligation. No wonder Jesus could say, "If you love me, obey me."
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