A Lowly Title

We worship Jesus not only for His power and majesty, but especially for His lowliness.

"For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

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When people want to get to know you, one of the first questions they tend to ask is: “So, what do you do?”

For a while, I could answer with something that sounded impressive—Christian Hip-Hop Producer. But behind the title? It was just me, holed up in my bedroom at 3 a.m., riding a caffeine wave, fiddling with beats and hoping something good would come together. Not always glamorous. But the title? It carried weight.

Titles can do that. They often function as shortcuts for significance. They can signal who we are, what we contribute, and how we hope to be seen, which is why we often gravitate toward titles that sound important. We want roles that sound worthy of admiration.

And yet—this is exactly what makes Jesus so compelling. He is the most exalted person to ever walk the earth, and still, He embraced the title most of us would avoid: Servant.

Not because He had to. But because He chose to.

The eternal Son of God—the one through whom all things were made—took on the name and role of Servant. Why? Because only through that path of humility could He bring us salvation. As Andrew Murray once said, “His humility became our salvation.”

We worship Jesus not only for His power and majesty, but especially for His lowliness—for the beauty of a King who stooped, who suffered, who served. As Philippians 2 tells us, He “humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross… therefore God has highly exalted him.”

We worship Jesus precisely because he humbled himself to the point of death on the cross for us (Phil. 2:6-9). In Christ, we have the ultimate servant for our good and God’s glory. Praise be to Christ!

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