Serving With The Right Attitude

The gifting of an ability to care, help and love others is most probably life's most awesome honor.

God has chosen to anoint certain people with the ability to serve Him by helping others. These 'gifted' people are constantly inundated with persons who are troublesome, annoying, rebellious and needy. Our Saviour God, Jesus was birth into the world to attend and minister to these helpless, weak and hopeless community.

Those who were specially chosen to serve God were equipped with the Holy Spirit to accomplish this task for God's honor and glory. The Holy Spirit who is filled with God's mercy, grace and unfailing love ministered to these 'poor' community through appointed servants who has volunteer to sacrifice their lives to serve God who alone loves us in His Son, our Savious Jesus.

The greatest hurdle in serving God is most probably discovering the joy in accomplishing the most demanding task rather than attempting to achieve them grudgingly. All of us need to learn to be a bridge and not a wall to understand that every need confronting us presents us with an opportunity to care, help and fulfil that need. When you offered to help someone, you will discover and experience an overwhelming and breathtaking joy.

Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God made this profound statement in the Bible: The greatest among you is a servant! The Son of the Living God is the greatest servant, who came to suffer humility and obedience in His suffering so that He can present His servanthood honoring and glorifying God, the Father.

I was recently introduced to a lesson about serving God. I shared and make unkind remarks of a certain customer who was obviously facing financial difficulty in executing his payment to me. Instead of spending time praying for this customer and offering words of encouragement, I shared and condemned his predicament to others. I unknowingly disappointed the Holy Spirit gifted to me to help others by failing to understand that the entire lesson was to reveal to me how much Christ loved me when I was a nuisance to Him.

I learned from the above experience that a servant must possess these qualities- integrity and rectitude. I must not share and condemn the predicaments of those I ministered to. How will those who hope in God placed their confidence in God's appointed servants and ministers when these same servants and ministers go about condemning them? All in all, God taught me to be an improved servant.

Care for the flock that God has entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly- not because for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God. Don't lord it over the people assigned to your care, but lead them by your own good example. 1 Peter 5:2-3

Unless I placed my hands inside the beehive, I could never take out the honey. What I need is not more intellectual power but more spiritual power. The reason why so little is accomplished is generally because so little is attempted.

Without God's amazing unconditional love filling our hearts, we cannot serve God.

May the Holy Spirit filled me with Christ humble, merciful, and affectionate attitude to serve His people who has hope in Him.