Doulos

Well, I’m in college now. Trying to adjust, get plugged in, and... do homework... but that’s a topic for later. I’ve just got a quick thought from our Praise and Bible Study night we have here at the BCM.
Philippians 1:1 says, “Paul and Timothy the servants of Jesus Christ...” That’s all the further i need to go for this. The Greek word used there for ‘servants’ is ‘doulos’. ‘Doulos’ means bondservant or slave. That much I already knew, many times Paul introduces his letters as being a servant of Christ. What I didn’t know was that servants in Paul’s time weren’t known by their names. They were completely identified by their masters. Basically, if I was a servant of Paul’s in that day I wouldn’t have been known as Joseph but as a Servant of Paul. It amazes me how Paul identifies himself so closely with Jesus. By calling himself a servant, a doulos, of Jesus Christ, he says I am no longer Paul, I only Identify with Jesus Christ. That’s an awesome claim! What if we as Christians could say that about our lives? What if we could say we are in such close fellowship with Christ and are so much like him that we don’t even identify ourselves by name anymore, instead, we identify ourselves simply as servants of Christ.