Serving

This totally smacked me in the face today...


Live = Serve
''...THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED, BUT TO SERVE...'' MARK 10:45
Jesus entered the world to serve. And we should do the same. Whether it is our school-world, our work-world, our community-world or our church-world. Serving requires no special training or qualifications. Here's three things to know about serving: 1) To serve is to love the overlooked. Jesus sits in your class wearing thick glasses, outdated clothing and a sad face. You've seen Him. Jesus lives on your street, pregnant again, no one knows the father. You've seen her. When you love the misfit and befriend the hurting, you love Jesus. '"...Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored...you did it to me"' (Matthew 25:40 TM). 2) To serve is to wave the white flag. We fight so much: 'Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from?' asks James, 'Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way...' (James 4:1 TM). Real servants don't fight for their rights if it means someone else will lose theirs. No, real servants empty their own lives so that others can be filled. 3) To serve is to do something selfless every day. Pick up someone's litter. Let someone in front of you in the queue. Give up your seat on the bus. Tell someone you appreciate them. It doesn't have to be a big thing. Don't be too big to do something small. '...Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort' (1 Corinthians 15:58 TM). Are you getting the message? To live = to serve.


I think sometimes I serve with totally the wrong motives... I want my heart to be shaped like Jesus' heart, I want to love the lost for who they are, not who it makes me.

God is SO good.... today I have such a peace, it's beautiful.