Remember Jesus, who serves God

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 2:17

As high priest, Jesus serves us and saves us and prays for us and helps us. But He is not subject to us. Rather, He submits Himself to the will of our Father in heaven. Before Jesus was arrested and taken to be crucified, He prayed. In John 17, we see Jesus talking to His Father on behalf of His brothers (the disciples, and us). The goal in this prayer is for God's glory to be seen. This is how Jesus served and continues to serve God. He is God, so it is His kingdom after which He labors.

Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. John 17:1b-5

Jesus has done what Mark Cahill would say are the two ways in which men serve God: they make Him known, and they make Him look good. As Jesus is laying His life down, He humbly submits to a lowly death, knowing the glory it will bring.

I think we have this tendency to want to do things for God. We want, on some level, to serve Him. But I'm not sure we really know what that means.

Do people around you, people you do life with, do they know anything about the God you're claiming to serve? If they know whom you serve, do you make Him look good?

Now to be clear, Jesus will build His church and the new heavens and earth without your help. But Jesus gave His entire life to glorify His Father in heaven. Do you have the same goal?

Remember Jesus, who perfectly lives out the first principle of the Westminster Confession of Faith - to know God and glorify Him forever.