This is such an amazing scripture because it teaches one our role and more understanding of those who proclaim to be in great authority. I think of King Benjamin when I read this passage. King Benjamin ruled over a group of Nephites but his life and what he did was the most influential of all. He did not tax his people nor did he put hard burdens upon them. King Benjamin served his people in various ways, some are he worked for his own wages, supported himself by farming his own food, and many other things that pertain to his self-reliance. He did not cause others to support him but he served them and helped them.In our society today we have this misconception that those who are in high rankings or high positions should be labored to by the people instead of them laboring to us. It always makes me think of this phrase "what makes you better than us that you do not have to work and serve others."
I love what Christ has taught here because Christ was and is the most high God, he commands everything but yet he did not come to earth to have people serve him living in luxury. Rather he went about his earthly life helping others, uplifting them, serving them, cleaning them, healing them, teaching them. He took no thought of food from day to day or how he would get from one place or another. In a way you can see him as a beggar or homeless person because these characteristics are in a way what Christ did. But this is the principle and deep understanding behind this passage. Even though he was of royal and eternal blood did not make him above everyone else. He could have done so but that is not heavenly characteristic of him.
We are all called to be servants for we are not better than the next person beside us or even the stranger on the side of the street. We are to follow the example of Christ and be a servant to all people, for that is the way of Christ.
