“And she [Abigail] arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”~ 1 Sam. 25:41
What a woman, this woman called Abigail! If you want to see why I say this, read 1 Samuel chapter twenty-five. What wisdom, what character, what devotion, what true humility this good and godly saint possessed.
When God pronounced a curse upon one of Noah’s sons, He said he would be, “A servant of servants.” Gen. 9:25 Not just a servant, but a servant of servants. That is: the lowest, vilest, worst, and most despicable position an individual could hold.
We find her willingly accepting this place. How Christ-like this O.T. saint was in spite of the fact that her LORD was not born until over a thousand years later. Peter tells us the Spirit of Christ was in the O.T. saints, “…the Spirit of Christ which was in them.”~ 1 Pet. 1:11
She, as a servant of servants, would wash the feet of David’s servants; her Lovely Lord (a millennium afterward), as a servant of servants, washed His followers' feet.
Think of it, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords becoming a servant of servants!
God help each of us to follow Paul’s admonition. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…who…took upon him the form of a servant…”~ Phil. 2:5,7
“If you want to know if you’re a true servant, let someone you consider less than your equal treat you like one.”~ rds
Thank you, Dad.