SERVANT OR SON/DAUGHTER?

Do you consider yourself a servant of God or a son/daughter of God?

I'm thinking of a servant more or less in the terms of a slave. It goes without saying that as Christians we're all God's servants, doing His will, being His ambassadors.

Did you ever stop to think that the Old Testament personalities who lived for the Lord were God's servants rather than children of the Heavenly Father?

I read someplace that people were never spoken of as children of the Heavenly Father in the Old Testament. But of course I had to prove it to myself. So I got out my exhaustive concordance and looked up the word children. Sure enough -- nary an Old Testament reference could I find pertaining to children of the Heavenly Father. But once the New Testament references began, the majority of entries referred to children of the Heavenly Father.

You see, in Old Testament times, God was revealed as Jehovah, and the Old Testament saints were considered as His servants. Not until New Testament times was God revealed as a Father, our Heavenly Father. And after Christ died to redeem mankind, as Christians we were spoken of as God's children. Scripture abounds with references to our being His sons.

Now let me ask you another question. Which is more important, more favored in a household -- a servant or a son/daughter?

If God did so many great and mighty things for His Old Testament servants, how much more will He do for His New Testament children?

I'm still thinking of the last blog about the great and mighty things God did for Moses. You and I are children of the Heavenly Father. Will God not do just as great and mighty things for us, and even greater things for us, His children, than He did for Moses and the other Old Testament personalities?

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