Sons or Servants?

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: If the prince gives a gift of land to one of his sons as his inheritance, it will belong to him and his descendants forever.”  (Ezekiel 46:16, NLT)

God wants us to be sons, not just servants (compare v 16 to v 17 in Ezekiel 46).  It may sound more humble to desire being a servant rather than a son, but there are important differences.  A son may receive an eternal inheritance, a servant can only receive temporal rewards.  Temporal rewards are great (and are extremely generous gifts by the master) but God desires to bless us as sons (or daughters), not just servants.  When the prodigal son returned, he realized that coming back as a servant would be far better than his current circumstances and situation, “How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!”  (Luke 15:17, NKJV).  But when his son returned, the father didn’t want the prodigal to return as a servant, he welcomed him back as his son.  No matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done, God sees us as his sons.

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