And they said, The Lord hath need of him. Luke 19:34
As he was, the little colt tied outside of a house near Jerusalem was not of any use to anybody, not even himself. He was unbroken, and therefore not useful for anyone to ride upon or to carry a load or to plow a field. He was tied, and therefore not available for service. In fact, he could not even do what he wanted to do himself. He could not play or visit other donkeys or graze in the meadow. Life was pointless and drab for that little creature, a useless existence. But that was not what the Lord Jesus intended for the donkey, just as it is not what He wants for men and women, and boys and girls. Although we are as insignificant as a little untrained donkey tied to a doorpost, He has need of us.
When we consider our Lord as the all-powerful, all-knowing Deity Who inhabits eternity, we might well wonder what need He would have of us. For one thing, He needs us to be a worshipper. John 4:23 tells us that the Father seeketh such to worship Him. We could never worship Him in our unsaved days because we did not appreciate Him. It was only when the Holy Spirit brought us to repentance of sin that we could move into the realm of appreciating that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world (1 John 4:14). Now that we have been redeemed, we praise our Redeemer. We look into His Word each day and worship the God Who has revealed Himself to us. We gather each week in obedience to His words, ‘This do in remembrance of Me’, and we worship together in remembrance of His death until He come. With adoring angels all around Him, and with the saints of the ages past lifting their praises of appreciation, the Lord still has need of our worship.
He also has need of our witness. Before He returned to Glory, the Lord Jesus told His disciples: Ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). The Lord Jesus no longer physically walks this earth, teaching and preaching. But He has His representatives here. Like the demoniac who was healed, we are instructed to remain here and tell others what the Lord Jesus has done for us. As His witnesses, we display His love and compassion for souls, His desire that sinners would enter into the salvation that He came to provide for us. There are many different ways in which we can be the witness that He needs us to be.
Of all the great wonders concerning our Lord, this must surely be the greatest, that He has need of our worship and our witness! – Jim MacIntosh