Article September 4, 1965 Issue

Readiness to Serve

FRED W. DECKER

Most people, whether quite satisfied with their present lot or otherwise, are usually expectant of better things to come and are ready to seize upon every chance to better themselves. While everyone should be progressive in purpose and awake to opportunities, ambition may falsely lead men to strive for worldly things to gratify their personal desires, and in this striving they may forget that their first thought should be to give service.

Christ Jesus' unselfed ministry in freeing the multitudes from all manner of oppression, sin, disease, and death was an unparalleled demonstration of the spiritual, supremely effective law of divine Principle. Yet he said (Luke 22:27), "I am among you as he that serveth." He was indeed God's servant in ministering to His people and demonstrating for them mankind's God-derived authority over materiality and evil.

Jesus taught that God is the Father of all men. He understood man to be spiritual and perfect, made in the likeness of God, Spirit, not in the image of human parents, subject to the ills of the flesh. As God's son and obedient servant, the Master said (Matt. 6:24): "No man can serve two masters.... Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

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