Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. (Matthew 23:10)
We live in a world of ‘masters’, for since birth we are beholden to our parents, then our teachers, then our employers and of course the governmental powers that be. Nevertheless, masters who lack that servant-spirit are deceiving themselves, for they are denying the supreme example of the true ‘Master, even Christ’, who gave Himself for wretched sinners such as us. The One who is eternal and through whom heaven and earth came into being deigned to be laid in an animal’s feeding-trough as a baby, to own not a single piece of property, to be unjustly sentenced to death for a crime He did not commit. Worldly masters, so-called, who do not glance heavenward and consider His example are not really masters at all, but at best bullies, at worst tyrants.
The key, then, is that true masters are really servants in disguise. False masters are unworthy of the name for they assume the role of Master proper; how contrary Christ is to the cruel, greedy, proud, megalomaniacal masters who are so prominent in this world. We must consider this paradox seriously, even as we gain future positions of power and responsibility in the world. The verse does not call us to renounce such things but to view them in the glorious Gospel light of substitution and adoption. We walk by faith in the one who was and is the true, genuine Master… or we do not walk at all.
yargp's Blog 