Good evening my readers. I hope all are doing well on
this very hot and humid summer evening .I’m glad to be back and in the swing of
blogging im hoping to get back to regular weekly entries so you all may be
encouraged by what the Lord has placed on my heart to share with you all
tonight.
As Christ
followers I think its very important to constantly
be evaluating our spiritual walk and seeing where we need to improve and asking
the Holy spirit to do work in our minds and hearts, because it is our responsibility
to become more and more like Christ as we grow and mature as Christians. As I was
pondering what this entry was going to be about, I felt the Lord speak to my
heart and after much prayer and time in God word I decided to reflect on what true servant hood is , and
why its important that we all get involved
in someway serving our church family.
Are you
sitting on the sidelines? Each week you find yourself sitting in the pew as you
listen to the sermon being preached, you find yourself thinking what a great sermon spoken by the pastor
today, I t really hit home and touched my heart. Week after week you do this. yet
as you go back into your own little world the words that seemed to pull at your
heartstrings seem to fall to the wayside. You look at your busy, crammed schedule
and you think to yourself I can’t possibly make time for community group, where
true fellowship starts, a place where your spiritual maturity will cultivate growth.
I already have so many responsibilities which are all priorities, how can I find
the time?
The
following week after the service you overhear a woman saying the children’s ministry needs more teachers,
you love children, but you find another excuse to not help out. A few weeks
pass and while having a conversation with someone you find out that the person
who was greeting has moved onto another ministry and they are looking for
someone to fill this role. Yet again you just cant find the time. At the woman’s
get together after church you hear that so and so is in the hospital and could
use a visitor and maybe a few meals for their family, but you think I have my
own family to think about. You plead your case to the pastor and to God!
I go to church
every week without fail, I read the scriptures every night before I close my
eyes, I believe in what the scriptures say, isn’t that enough? We are created
in Gods image. We are supposed to be the hands and feet of Jesus, to be the
light, to bear one another’s burdens. Were not just supposed to fill a pew on Sunday
mornings ,and the monthly fun woman’s or men’s gatherings. God requires much
more from us. Each one of us has talents and as you mature in your spiritual walk
you learn what your spiritual gifts are as well
We are all part of the body of Christ and the
body cant function without all its parts. Jesus
came to serve, He the king of kings came as a servant to serve whomever
needed his touch, we as Christians need to follow this example .When you think
of Jesus washing his disciples feet, that’s
servant hood. We can’t just be Christ
Followers by name only, but be willing to do what needs
to be done, in any way we can help Serving one another, your church family. Are
you sitting on the sidelines?
My prayer is for
you to ask God to reveal to you, where you are holding back from being a
servant? You play a role, being a Christian is not just a title, but it’s a way
we live out our lives, not by just the words we speak or believe, but following
his example in His footsteps. May Jesus do the work in your heart and may
he Grow you farther than you ever
thought you could !As you step out of the pew, not into the limelight, but into
the light of what true Servant hood is!
