Do you enjoy serving? Do you enjoy being treated like a servant? For me the answers are it depends and no.
It depends on what I am doing to serve. Equipping others to study the Bible, absolutely, I love that. Doing dishes or cleaning bathrooms, not so much. I really do not like being treated like a servant. Ordered around. Told what to do, when.
You know the verse. Mark 10:45, Christ’s example. He said we should be like Him. To be a servant first. To be treated as one. Paul explores this in excruciating detail in Philippians 2:3 – 9. It is a passage I do not like very much. Because it is crystal clear. The application is that we, I am to have that same attitude and behavior. On my own, not going to happen. It takes Christ living through me. It is a good thing that I have been joined to His death and my life is now His.
You know the verse. Mark 10:45, Christ’s example. He said we should be like Him. To be a servant first. To be treated as one. Paul explores this in excruciating detail in Philippians 2:3 – 9. It is a passage I do not like very much. Because it is crystal clear. The application is that we, I am to have that same attitude and behavior. On my own, not going to happen. It takes Christ living through me. It is a good thing that I have been joined to His death and my life is now His.
I heard one man praying, "Jesus, I can't. Love Yourself through me. Obey Yourself through me. Glorify Yourself through me. And it would be possible to add, "Serve others through me."
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