Servants….
They like to help….and help….and help….and help….and help….
And will not stop helping…..
Meeting tangible needs…
Cleaning…
Praying…
Cleansing…
Praying off death spirits…
No guile…
Willing to stand up to bullies…
And they do not quit when a fight is involved and others are damaged beyond repair…
The just do not quit…
And they have no guile and no agenda…
Until or unless someone breaks them out of that tiny and small vision of serving and obeying…
Like a trauma…
Or a hard word of some sort from a friend willing to deliver that message….
Redemptive Gift Prophets are usually the ones with the chops and the authority to speak to both, and if mature, the blow can be softened by the Servant seeing and hearing the heart of the Prophet…
Candidly, Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, was, in his early years, possessed of the heart necessary t take on the task of making the world a safe place from bullies, but while his best friend, Bucky Barnes, was present in the early season, Barnes was a constant distraction for Rogers from his missions:
It took the grueling adversity of believing Barnes dead to get Steve into the right place of focus.
Then, being frozen in the ice for 70 years after interacting with another Prophet (Peggy Carter) got him more focused, as he was given the mission of leading the Avengers.
And with us, especially with the Servants, we have to be broken from our lesser goals and embrace the deeper things the King has for us, if we are to walk in our highest calling and the best version of ourselves.
And maybe, just maybe, we will in the process, regain some of what we lost.
In Rogers’ case, he received back his best friend, and then the love of his life, and after the Infinity War and Endgame was able to go onto a third act and another shot at many of the things he had missed out.
Those events, if they do not let the King in to heal them or the memory, can leave them in a low place for much of their lives.
The King attempts to break so many of us out of the mediocrity of the Grand Central Station of Obedience and into something deeper, but sometimes the higher, deeper, broader, more colorful place requires we endure a large measure of productive pain.
And as to Bucky (Prophet), the Prophet’s pain is of a different type and a different pathway, but it is no less significant.
In the case of the Servant, “throwing myself in, follow orders, serve” is NOT enough once the dissatisfaction with the low goal of obedience is quashed for a vision with purpose and an adventure.
The tracks or road or path get laid through obedience, but the adventure only gets embraced through creativity, and that comes only through sonship. Slaves obey, sons create.
Servants, who are so used to settling for something secondary, helping others, or BEING PUSHED INTO THAT ROLE AND ACCEPTING IT, were made to be dialed-in for one thing…
Yet….
GREATER…
…than meeting the felt needs of others: to create an environment wherein the King would be happy to come and dwell. They ultimately must be pulled from their secondary purpose, as with the Prophet from theirs (solving problems and fixing things), and get dialed into their primary purpose (creating the one environment that matters to provide a place that is comfortable and inviting so that the King’s purposes might get accomplished).
It took Steve losing his best friend and his former reality to move into something deeper.
It will take the Servant losing their smaller reality to move into the deeper purpose.
And, sigh, it will not be easy, but it will be worth it.
#PrincipleOfAuthority
The Example of the Servant Who Missed It and Lost Out Bigtime
I am going to leave one line here from one account, and I want you each to catch it, and i want it to sit with you, and I want you each, Servants, to move into greater things, because the typical Servant is adept at the ecosystem and working with the earth, incredibly well, or some dynamic that can become settling, if they are not careful.
Then Saul, went back to his father Kish at Gibeah, having received the kingship and the office, and resumed his lesser task of farming….
And you know the rest of the story…..