{"id":11914,"date":"2025-03-08T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2025-02-22T06:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:28:28","slug":"willingness-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11914","title":{"rendered":"Willingness To Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sons of GOD are not looking for recognition or promotion, they lead as a Son!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cSons of GOD\u201d is not gender-specific in these writings.  The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 But those who embraced Him and took hold of His Name He gave authority to become the Sons of God<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Sons of GOD, you rule with the heart of a servant, and you serve with the heart of a king<\/em>.  Jesus gave us the perfect Example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beloved Disciple recorded the Words and acts of Jesus in John chapter 13:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Jesus knew that the night before Passover would be His last night on earth before leaving this world to return to the Father\u2019s Side<\/strong>. All throughout His time with His disciples, Jesus had demonstrated a deep and tender Love for them. And now He longed to show them the full measure of His Love<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus knew that He would return to Heaven and be seated next to Our Heavenly Father.  Before His departure, He wanted to cement the realization of what it meant to be a qualified Son of GOD in the area of serving others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Before their evening meal had begun, the accuser had already deeply embedded betrayal into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Now Jesus was fully aware <\/u><\/strong>that the Father had placed all things under His control, for He had come from God and was about to go back to be with Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus knew His destiny and His authority here on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 So He got up from the meal and took off His outer robe, and took a towel and wrapped it around His waist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples\u2019 dirty feet and dry them with His towel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we have the King of kings as a servant, washing the disciple\u2019s dirty feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 But when Jesus got to Simon Peter, he objected and said, \u201cI can\u2019t let You wash my dirty feet\u2014You\u2019re My Lord!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 Jesus replied, \u201cYou don\u2019t understand yet the meaning of what I\u2019m doing, but soon it will be clear to you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 Peter looked at Jesus and said, \u201cYou\u2019ll never wash my dirty feet\u2014never!\u201d \u201cBut Peter, if You don\u2019t allow me to wash your feet,\u201d Jesus responded, \u201cthen you will not be able to share Life with Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 So Peter said, \u201cLord, in that case, don\u2019t just wash my feet, wash my hands and my head too!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we want to share Life with Jesus, we must be willing to serve others, no matter how menial it appears to be.  Jesus revealed what it is to be a true Son of GOD\u2026 to serve others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Jesus said to him, \u201cYou are already clean. You\u2019ve been washed completely and you just need your feet to be cleansed\u2014but that can\u2019t be said of all of you.\u201d For Jesus knew which one was about to betray him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 and that\u2019s why he told them that not all of them were clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 After washing their feet, he put his robe on and returned to his place at the table. \u201cDo you understand what I just did?\u201d Jesus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 \u201cYou\u2019ve called Me your Teacher and Lord, and you\u2019re right, for that\u2019s Who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14-15 So if I\u2019m your Teacher and Lord and have just washed your dirty feet, then you should follow the example that I\u2019ve set for you<\/u><\/strong> and wash one another\u2019s dirty feet. Now do for each other what I have just done for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washing someone\u2019s feet is a humble experience and clearly displays a willingness to serve others, what better way to show a servant\u2019s heart!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 I speak to you timeless Truth<\/u>: a servant is not superior to his master, and an apostle is never greater than the one who sent him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 So now put into practice what I have done for you<\/strong>, and you will experience a Life of happiness enriched with untold blessings!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you willing to wash the dirty feet of a beggar?  When you wash feet, you must stoop down to do so.  Serving others is a true sign of a Son of GOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sons of GOD are not looking for recognition or promotion, they lead as a Son! The term \u201cSons of GOD\u201d is not gender-specific in these writings.  The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 1: 12 But those who embraced Him and took hold of His Name He gave authority to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}