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Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ - the term, which we translate servant, properly means a slave, one who is the entire property of his grasp; and is utilized here by the apostle with great propriety. He felt he had not been his own, and that his life and forces belonged to his heavenly owner, and that he previously no right to dispose of or employ them but in the strictest sub-servant-hood to the will of his Lord. Within this sense, and in this soul, he is the prepared slave of Jesus Christ; and this is, perhaps, the best character which any heart of man can attain upon this aspect eternity. "I am wholly the Lord's; and wholly committed in the soul of sacrificial obedience, to the constant, complete, and enthusiastic performance of the Divine will." A friend of God is high; a son of God is higher; but the servant, or, in the above mentioned sense, the slave of God, is higher than all; - in a word, he is a person who feels he does not have any property in himself, and that God is all and in all.
