Scripture: Luke 17:10 Text: Just Doing My Job!

“So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, “We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.”

When a good soldier does the job he has been trained to do and ordered to do, he doesn’t expect to get a medal. He does his job because there’s a job to do. His response is “I’m just doing my job, sir.” Jesus said a servant of the Lord shouldn’t expect to receive accolades or special recognition. We obey because it’s our job. If you are serving the Lord for the reward or recognition you may receive, you have the wrong motive.

A true servant serves because it is his duty, even claims to be an unprofitable servant. Unprofitable means unworthy, possessing no merit, for we have not gone beyond our obligation.

Proverbs 22:2 states, “Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself”? Our services are not profitable to God.” He is God, the maker of heaven and earth, God who opened His mouth and said “Let there be”, and it to pass. He doesn’t need our assistance and His happiness does not increase by what we do for Him.

David wrote in Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do your will O, my God, and your law is within my heart.” God’s reward for good service is more service. We are to serve the Lord with gladness simply because we have been saved and we love the Master.

If we look at the scriptures prior to verse 10, Jesus tells us about a servant working in the field,
7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow (think) not.

The master has every right to demand complete obedience from his slave, but the slave has no right to demand anything from his master. His position is to follow orders as many without receiving any reward.
You say the scripture didn’t say the word slave it says “servant”. In this instance, the word servant in the Greek translates to doulus; a slave bondman, man of servile, condition a slave, one who gives himself up to another’s will.

A good soldier follows every command that his C.O. gives. And he carries them out to the letter. He may get one detail after another but he doesn’t complain he doesn’t say get somebody else he