Service

"Maybe then I shall see the few precious instants when the grace of Your Love has succeeed in stealing into an obsure corner of my life, in between the countless blaes of second-hand goods that fill up my everyday routine." Wow, what a profound statement. Sometimes I rush around day-to-day just trying to stay ahead of what seems to be a never ending list of things to get done, and at the end of the day, I feel as if I have so little to show for any of it or like my day wasn't worth what it could have been. Maybe this has been coming from God's desire to finally have me realize that my daily life should be about serving. Showing other people who He is and showing them His love should be the reason I get up in the morning and the reason I do anything throughout the day. When I make my day about tasks, the ultimate thing God calls me to just falls to the wayside. And some days I set aside to "do God's work" like go to the food bank or help out with Sunday school, but that isn't the extent to what we are called to either. "Whe we choose to serve, we are still in charge. We decide whom we will serve and when we will serve." Isn't that just like us, and especially me? I like to think I am on God's schedule but by not laying my life down to be a sevant, all I am doing is choosing to stay in control of my life and serve when I feel like it, or when I feel it is best. I want to choose to be a servant. Nothing I have planned for my day or my life could be greater than God's plan, so why pretend like having control is even a good thing? I have heard this verse many times, but it means something new this time, if Jesus the Son of God was a servant, than my sinfull self can't even consider being anything more. So in that case I hope to live by Phiipians 2:5-10 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!"