{"id":1255,"date":"2010-08-02T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:51:01","slug":"servanthood-in-gods-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/servanthood-in-gods-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Servanthood in God&#8217;s Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus calls us to be servants &#8211; the greatest is the servant of all.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind being a servant, if I am the one who volunteers and chooses to be a servant.\u00c2\u00a0 I determine what I will or will not do.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t like to be forced to be a servant &#8211; when someone orders me around, or when I am forced to perform menial tasks. I don&#8217;t like to be pushed to beyond my boundaries. But that in fact is the true spirit of servanthood.<\/p>\n<p>Servanthood on my terms is not servanthood at all. I am counted as very little in God&#8217;s Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>This means that when circumstances forces me to humble myself, to take some abuse, I should not complain or be indignant. It really is an opportunity to exemplify true servanthood and climb the ladder of success in God&#8217;s Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus calls us to be servants &#8211; the greatest is the servant of all. I don&#8217;t mind being a servant, if I am the one who volunteers and chooses to be a servant.\u00c2\u00a0 I determine what I will or will not do. But I don&#8217;t like to be forced to be a servant &#8211; when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spiritual-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}