The Servant Candle (Shamash) Part 2

The Feast of Dedication, The Festival of Lights, Also Called Hanukkah Part 2

The holiday is celebrated on the first night by lighting a light in the menorah (candlestick). For eight nights, every night there is an increase of one more light lit. On the eighth night, all eight lights are lit. 

The candle that lights the lights is called the servant candle (shamash). It is to sit a bit higher or lower than the rest of the candles. 

This servant candle appears to me to be a metaphor for Jesus. He is our Master and Lord, yet He was a servant.

"If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet." - John 13:14 

The servant candle is not extinguished after it does its job of lighting the other candles. Its light is available to light a candle in case a candle blows out.

Jesus is available to ‘relight our light,’ refilling us with His Spirit if we stumble and repent. 

"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." - Ephesians 5:14 

"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." - Romans 13:12 

"Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:" - Ezekiel 37:4-5 

“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry." - Luke 15:20-24