Have you noticed that, while Jesus is the final expression of the name Adonai, the fullness of the Lordship of God, Lord in the flesh, He is also the ultimate expression of the word servant as well.
Since He fulfilled all righteousness in the flesh, He became the final and necessary Servant. No man has ever served like this One. See His love in John 13.
Matthew 20: The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Luke 22: I am among you as one who serves. Hebrews 10, quoting Psalm 40: Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'
Though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant. (Philippians 2:6-7)
This is the God to whom we bow and confess: Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. This Christ is the One we follow. This is the One who lived out the righteousness that we need and can't do, and then gave it to us. He is the One who took the sins that we do accomplish, and bore them in His flesh on the tree. What a Savior. What a Lord.
Call Him Adonai, Lord and Master, this day, and then, like Ananias in Acts 9 (read it and be encouraged and challenged) respond to His call with Here I am, Lord.
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