SERVANT=HE IS LOVING KINDNESS
Jesus was a SERVANT
Of his LOVING FATHER=
He came to serve us=
Even though-
He was GOD HIMSELF
We are to be SERVANTS too=
To serve God=
And to SERVE all others
“NOT crying out=not shouting
NOT making his voice
Heard in the street” Isaiah 42:2
The BAPTISM of our Lord
Is what we celebrate today=
It is the START of
The PUBLIC MINISTRY of Jesus
The Lord our Father
Wants us to REFLECT
On the description of Jesus as
“SERVANT of the Lord”
“Here is my SERVANT
Whom I uphold=
My chosen one
In whom I delight” Isaiah 42:1
This foreshadows the COMING
Of the MESSIAH!
Isaiah does not talk about
The Messiah
Being a shouter=or a showman
He does not talk about
Power and glory
NO=he talks about
The SERVANT as being one
Of QUIET GENTLENESS
He talks about the COMING KINDNESS
OF THE MESSIAH!
“Anxiety weighs down the heart-
But a KIND WORD
Cheers it up” Proverbs 12:25
“BE KIND and compassionate
To one another
Forgive each other
Just as CHRIST forgave you” Ephesians 4:32
“And the Lord's SERVANT
Must not be quarrelsome=
But must be KIND to everyone
Able to teach-
Not be resentful” 2 Timothy 2:24
And Isaiah goes out of his way
To say the MESSIAH will
“ESTABLISH PEACE ON EARTH” Isaiah 42:4
And Jesus was such a SERVANT=
He let his cousin John
Baptize him=the MESSIAH!
And this was John's message
“After me comes
The one
More powerful than I
The straps of
Whose sandals=I am not worthy
To stoop down and untie
I baptize you with water=
But he will baptize you
With the HOLY SPIRIT” Mark 1:7-8
And so this HUMBLE SERVANT
Lets himself
Be baptized by his cousin
And the FATHER says=
“You are my SON
Whom I love=
With you=I AM WELL PLEASED” Mark 1:11
May we ALL
BE SUCH SERVANTS=in this world
That our Holy Father is
“WELL PLEASED” with us too
Love like Jesus=live like a SERVANT=
And with GENTLE KINDNESS
In the name of Jesus=and our ALWAYS kind gentle=and LOVING FATHER
Robert P. Wallman
1-8-21
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Greg Erlandson
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