serving

Service has become a big business in the world.
People who have never met you before are trained to smile
to you and seemingly from the bottom of their hearts they are
willing to make you happy.
We have learned to pay for it,
the better the performance the bigger the tip.
Satan takes people to hell carrying their luggage and serving
them to the end at his last supper.
This kind of serving wants to give you an impression that you
are getting something, when in reality you are always the one who
is paying the price for it. It has an appearance of a favor , but it
often is just plain robbery.
Jesus calls us to be servants. He encouraged the leaders to help
people by serving them. Mt.20:28
He himself was very radical with his conviction to serve. Jn.11
He was a servant , but he didn’t save the world by serving,
but by dying.
His serving probably convicted people around him of their
selfishness and made them guilty.
But his death on the cross was the greatest service he ever
could have offered, because it wiped away man’s guilt.
Sometimes our religious attitude of serving is revealing just the
moral light to others. That might help people to become better,
but it can never solve the deeper problem.
It cannot wash away sin.
Serving people by sharing the message of salvation with them is
the best we can offer. Everything else falls short of the will of God.
He has cleansed our conscience from dead works to serve the
living God. Heb.9:14