To Serve or To Be Served


Do any of you have friend that you continually ask favors of and you thank them after but you never do any more than that? You never do them any favors? How many of us think that if we treated one of our friends that way, we would be able to keep that friend very long? I have been thinking about this recently. You see I have a friend that I think I treat more like my servant than I serve Him.  I feel like I constantly ask Him for favors and things (and He pulls through) but when He asks me for things, I ignore Him or shrug Him off. (If you haven’t guessed it yet, this capital H thing is because I am talking about my friend Jesus)

I feel like God has been working on my trust issues a lot in the past year or so. He has been reminding me of verses like 1 Peter 5:7 - casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you and Matthew 7:7 - Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. I have started to ask God for help and have seen Him answer me over and over again. I thank Him and move on. But here is my problem. There are other things God commands of me. Other thing that He asks me to do. He doesn’t just say come to me when you need help. He doesn’t just say, if you need something ask. He says things like, Love everyone or tell the whole world about me. What am I doing about other commands He has given? What am I doing for Him?

Sometimes I feel like I go through the Bible and pick and choose the things I want to do and leave the rest out. I want to be a servant. I want to serve Him and I want to serve others. The only way to truly do that is by serving myself less. In my heart Jesus must increase and my own desires must decrease.
Society tells us to make sure we are taking care of our own needs and wants and desires. Don’t worry about others as long as you are getting ahead and living your own dreams. If you can help someone else without hurting yourself then by all means do!

Jesus demands the opposite. First serve God, then others and lastly then yourself.
I find this a bit easier to comprehend when I remember who really is control and in charge. My time and my money is not my own cause I have given my life to God. If this is the case, what right do I have to say no when someone needs my help? It’s not mine to give! It’s Gods. He has given me the time, why not share it with someone else? 

So my prayer tonight is this, “Lord, will you let me be your servant?”


Comments

  1. Unknown14 May 2014 at 19:02

    My prayer too, Trisha. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. They're good.

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  2. Unknown16 May 2014 at 13:15

    So true. I must decrease so He can increase. Thanks so much for pointing us to Jesus, Trish.

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