Seize the Kairos! - LOST in Jesus

LOST (Love-Oriented Slave Trait) in Jesus

Luke 15:29New International Version (NIV)

²⁹ But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

We have been taught countless times as Christian to serve Jesus and have a servanthood mentality to serve God and others. In fact, knowing how much God love us even He sacrificed His Only begotten Son so that we can be saved (John 3:18), shows the level of commitment for us to love Him back. The level of commitment where we also give our entire life back to Him. Realizing that it is not about us and our agenda, but it is all about God and His agenda. It’s about being God’s slave where our rights are no longer applicable, but His rights are. For we know, that Jesus has lost his rights in order to save us. This is the true image of unconditional love. For when we love someone wholeheartedly, we are more than willing to lost our rights and become slave to the other person’s needs.

However, the Bible reminds us that this entire “being slave for Jesus” can be easily misunderstood without we even realizing it. There are 2 kinds of slave with different traits here: Love-Oriented Slave Trait and Reward-Oriented Slave Trait.  Many of us are actually practicing our selfless life in order to live for Jesus, but the pure underlying motives to do so is because we are still chasing God’s rewards and blessings. The oldest son in the story of the prodigal son is actually the heaviest case of the prodigal son. The oldest son is truly are the one who actually lost…really lost. He has been serving God by becoming a slave for Him and willing to lose all of his rewards and demonstrated total obedience to Him. Yet, he missed the whole point.

What God really wants for us is to have the right trait of being a slave, the Love-Oriented Slave Trait (LOST).  A selfless life dedicated to God with total obedience out of love to God, not because of the rewards and blessings, but because we truly love Him wholeheartedly.

Have we become slave to God in a proper trait? We might have been living a selfless life with an egoistic motive all this time without realizing it. Let us examine our hearts and ask God to search our heart so that we can truly become LOST (Love-Oriented Slave Trait) in Jesus.

-JH-