If we trace the lineaments of the servants of God in the Bible, we find a servant of God to be altogether different from an instrument of God. An instrument of God is one whom God takes up and uses and puts down again. A servant of God is one who has given up for ever his right to himself, and is bound to his Lord as His slave. For he that was called in the Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he that was called, being free, is Christ’s bondservant (1 Corinthians vii. 22).