The key to all Christian service

SUMMARY: Anyone who seeks power without going through God's formative process is not a true servant of the Lord. The Bible shows us examples of Moses, Paul, and Peter going through suffering and humility before accessing greatness. In Matthew 20, the disciples become angry when James and John ask for positions of power, but Jesus teaches them that Christian service is about extreme humility and serving others. Any ministry that does not reflect this attitude does not deserve to be called a Christ-centered ministry. The true meaning of the word minister is servant, not potentate. Christians should desire to be formed by God and serve others in the same spirit as Christ.

Any person who claims to gain power through a different process without first going through God's formative process is an illegitimate servant, not a true servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We see in Scripture that many times men and women of God went through sufferings and sufferings before accessing greatness. The most eloquent case for me is the case of Moses who spent forty years in the Egyptian court and then the Lord took him, through a very painful process, to the desert and he spent forty years in the desert serving there in a humble way as a goat herder, something totally humiliating for a Hebrew, lonely, in silence in the desert, and then only after those forty years of preparation does the Lord call him to the third part of his life, the last third part that was life of a statesman, a great prophet, a servant of God who was to lead all of God's people from Egypt to the Promised Land, but first he had to go through that process.