Servants

Today Jerry taught about being servants. We should always seek to serve, just as Jesus was the ultimate servant by taking on all of our sins and laying his life down. He spoke of how in God's kingdom everything is in reverse, "The King will serve the slave." Even though this is a very basic teaching of Christ,(i guess everything He taught was basic...otherwise I wouldn't get it!) it is so important to be reminded. All too often we get caught up in what we are doing, rather than looking around us to see what we can to do serve others. Another thing that was wonderful about being reminded to serve is that it made me very aware of instances when people sought to serve me. Just last night my husband took the time to serve me...he took care of our daughter all evening, made dinner, and even set up a romantic dinner and a movie in our old VW bus. I know that sounds strange, but it was so much fun. He took my laptop, a DVD, some candles and pillows and set them all up in the bus. It was like camping. As silly and simple as this act was, he went out of his to do something that he knew I would think was fun....I pray that I could learn to serve him as he serves me. Even more importantly, I pray that we could learn to serve everyone even when we know there will be no gratitude for it.