BONDMEN OF GOD
To be a bondman of God means that we recognise that we belong to Him in an absolute way, and that is what is to govern us. Not that there is anything servile about bondmanship, nor that there is anything degraded about it; far from it, for it has been made most glorious in a moral sense by the fact that He who was in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him a bondman’s form3. So that bondmanship to God has been exalted gloriously in a moral sense, as being set out perfectly in Christ; and I need not say that after the Lord Jesus came and set out that idea of bondmanship to God, glorifying God in it, it was with the intention of wielding the mighty influence which He holds over the hearts of His people to secure a corresponding result with every one of us. So that practically, in a world of evil, we may be delivered from lawlessness, as holding ourselves here under the claims of divine love in redemption and under the influence of Christ, to be for God’s will.
Extract from AJG, Piety and other addresses, p.152
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