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Servants
As I read my morning devotions, I was struck by this quote from John Wesley, great servant of God:
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
I think that is a wonderful description of our purpose in life. We all strive to be winners, to be successful, to be promoted and to be in charge!!! Who strives to be servants? When the teacher ask the class “What do you want to be when you grow up?” how many students raised their hand and replied “I want to be a servant!”? We have a worldly view of success and we continue to look for peace and contentment in the wrong places. God has the perfect plan for our lives yet we are determined to forge our own path.
Our excuses not to serve: the timing has to be just right, we are not talented enough to serve, we are not educated enough, or the most common excuse, “I’m not good enough to serve.” God is enough! God uses imperfect, flawed sinners to accomplish great and mighty things! He uses us to do the things that need to be done. The world may never know the hundreds of small things that God’s people accomplish every day, but the people that have needs will never forget them: the meal that you provided, the hug you gave them at a crucial time in their lives, the encouragement from you when everyone else abandoned them, the prayers when things looked really bad, the time you reminded them that God loves them even in the midst of their sin, and He is ready to forgive and heal them! The world needs many, many believers to be faithful to the call to be Servants! As my pastor reminded us in his sermon, God does not need our opinion, He needs our obedience! There is nothing that will satisfy you more than being obedient to God’s call to be his servants!
“Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.”
(Ecclesiastes 11:4-5, NLT)
Brinda Blair
Magee, MS