Perfect Fulfillment

# 604 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 10:45 "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

Who will be the greatest (mortally speaking) in the Kingdom of heaven? The Son of Man! Jesus! But even He did not come to be waited on hand and foot! This seems to be another idea concerning the Kingdom that needed to be clarified for the disciples.

I don't believe the kingdom of heaven either now or for eternity will consist of believers sitting on thrones while servants peel their grapes for them. I believe it will be more like the perfect contentment that comes from being useful.

I'm not sure how that will play out, but I imagine all our God-created giftedness and uniqueness will be maximized in perfect fulfillment, and He will forever be praised because of it.

And think about it, the only reason you or I even have an opportunity to be partakers of this Kingdom is because Jesus played the role of the Servant perfectly and then paid the ransom.

In a sense, we were all kidnapped when Adam and Eve fell. The ransom price was set by God Himself, for His Word says that the wages of sin, (the ransom) is death Jesus paid that price and the bonds of sin, which had held us captive were burst and we have been set free.

Jesus served in perfect fulfillment and it brought Him great joy: Heb 12:2b “who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,”

This same kind of fulfilling joy awaits all who remain in Christ.

Father, what a blessed place heaven will be, open the ears of the spiritually deaf, that they may hear and believe, and one day experience their created purpose in all its fullness.