"From these [parables] we see that first-century masters expected their servants to do many menial tasks: gather and burn useless weeds and collct wheat into a barn (Matt 13:30), call invited gusts to a wedding feast (Matt 22:3), bund an improperly dressed wedding guest and throw him out (Matt 22:13), bring clothing and kill a fatted calf (Luke 15:22-23), plow and tend sheep (Luke 17:7), and serve food (Luke 17:8). God may expect us to do lowly, ignoble tasks. The servant does not choose his work, the master does. On the other hand, the master could assign ighly responsible jobs. Four times the parables mention tasks that involve authority: collect rent (Matt 21:34), be in the charge of a household (Matt. 24:45), and invest money (Matt 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-27). Abraham sent Eliezer to get a bride for Isaac (Gen. 24:2-4). God may call upon His servants to do the lowest or the highest tasks.  In four of the parables, the servants are pictured as taking intiiative and even volunteering service. In Matthew 13:27-28, the servants reported to the master after an enemy sowed weeds in his crop. The servants volunteered to pull them up. In another parable, a rich man demanded an accounting of an unjust manager. The manager excused large portions of the debts of his master's debtors (Luke 16:5-7), and so ingratiated himself with the debtors. The master commended his shrewdness. In the parables of the talents and the minas, the servants invested money. Initiative and shredness are commendable within the confines of obedience, both in the menial tasks of the parable of the weeds and in the responsible tasks of the parables of the talents and minas. Also implicit in these is that the good servants worked diligently."

I thought this was so great and I know that T. W. Hunt would appreciate reminding the Church of these important aspects of servanthood and God's Word, but I do want to adhere to copyright law, so please check out his book, The Mind of Christ, here: http://books.google.com/books?id=exsKAAAACAAJ &" title="http://books.google.com/books?id=exsKAAAACAAJ &" target="_blank"http://books.google.com/books...;dq=TW+Hunt&source=an &hl=en&ei=F-G2StC 4EIXO8Qb2isiTDw&sa=X& amp;oi=book_result&ct =result&resnum=4
I myself bought a copy from Amazon a long time ago. It sat on my shelf, but when I began to read it, God's used this man's teachings dramatically to change some of my more fleshly convictions. It'll certainly do this to you also as T. W. Hunt really delivers the Word in his teaching.