luke 17:8

17:8 “wont he rather say, prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink?”

this is not how the body of Christ is supposed to operat. There shouldn’t be  one person that serves everyone and others that sit and expect them to keep serving.. the interns assigned to kp clean the kitchen and the staff cook in it and sit and eat with us when the food is ready. If one of those things weren’t taken care of then it causes problems such as if staff didn’t cook the food everyone would be hungry, or if we didn’t clean the kitchen there wouldn’t be dishes for people to eat with. Not only does that cause a disability in the body but it would be putting myself before other children of Christ if I had the attitude that I’m better then cleaning for the cook or cooking for the students then what would get done? And how would that be respecting the word of god? I don’t want to have a mindset that serving is a selfish act for hidden reward but simply something to honor our father and create a strong body for him and better relationship with him and  to make appealing to others so we can be used to his glory and grow the body of people. I find that god has a good foundation of love behind a lot of things he does esp. when it comes to serving and I find that the closer I get to god and doing godly acts of serving I love more. I love his people, even those who have hurt me. Nehemiah loved god and loved gods people a lot and that brought a great costly things.. he was in situations where he was surrounded by people that tried to kill and discourage him and get him to give up loving people. But he didn’t he stood tall and built the wall with one hand and had a sword in the other to fight of the devil that tried to use people to discourage him. He also prayed working with people helping them over and over to over come there lack of faith or struggles truly loving them. He pushed on working with them and helping them fight with him. He served them, will I be able to serve those who I disagree with? Or keep serving when times get tough? Will I be like Nehemiah I guy who was built with the love from god and used it to serve people and served people threw struggles that could have made him very self oriented? Nehemiah knew what he was called to do and what he was not called to do and did what he was called. He did it well, because that’s what god wanted and what god gifted him with.

Application: I need to find out why I exist and do it well. What talent god  has given me and do it to my best ability and use it to serve others. Not what I want to do or be but what god wan ts me to do and be, “more of him and less of me.” and make this a daily prayer, and put into action as a servant for him. Humbling myself by admitting my false judgments and braking down my pride and building it back up with love and good service done with good intentions.

Galatians 1:10 “am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of god? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.”