Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a restful night and are ready for the day. I hope God encourages you today and gives you strength to finish off the week, like only he can. For those of us in school, it's almost Christmas break! Finish strong! I hope this Christmas season we all remember the true meaning of the season. I know it sounds cheesy, but often times we forget that the whole point of Christmas is to celebrate our Savior being manifested in human flesh to live a perfect life and ultimately die for us. Giving gifts and spending time with family is a great way to celebrate, and there is nothing wrong with that, but try to remember that God gave us the greatest gift ever 2000 years ago. So with that, let's get started.
Today I feel like God is really putting it on my heart to talk about a subject no one really likes to talk about. Serving others. Philippians 2:3-4 says "Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." As I said in yesterdays post, a lot of people like to read the Bible only when it makes them comfortable, but skip over verses that say things like " count others more significant than yourselves. Most of us today spend so much time worrying about ourselves that we don't even have enough time in the day to take care of anybody else. In that verse, it also says to look not only at your own interest, but also to those of others. How often do we go about our day asking ourselves how we can help someone else out or how we could make someone else's day better? If we start serving as we should be, it can not only bless other people, but bless us even more.
Just recently, I served at my church in this thing we do called the "Ladies Christmas Tea". It's a night when the women can have tea, socialize, eat, and just have a good time. However, with the massive amounts and women that show up, someone has to be there to serve them, so we men get the awesome opportunity to serve them their tea and food. When my mom first volunteered me for this, I wasn't so sure about it. Finally, she convinced me it was a good idea, and I decided it might be worth a shot. The thing that really got me on board was the fact that you could sign up to serve a specific table, so of course I asked if I could serve the High School girl's table. After being told I was assigned to that table, I figured this whole serving thing couldn't be all that bad. When I arrived to the tea however, someone else had already been given my table and although I wasn't devastated, I was a little bummed out. But at that moment, I realized that even in serving, I had somehow managed to make it all about me again. God reminded me that this was a night to serve and not be served. Oh, how desperately I needed that. In that night, I was given the opportunity to bless so many women, but in the end, I was blessed just as much as they were! This is what serving can do for you. When you get off your pedestal and lower yourself to the position of a humble servant, you will be blessed in so many ways.
In the end, Jesus tells us "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” By serving, you can see first-hand the joy you can bring to people, and I promise it will blow you away.
I really hope this was encouraging to everyone, and made you realize that we need to be serving instead of expecting to be served, as much as it did for me. If you have any prayer requests, or anything you want to talk about, you can always message me on Facebook.
God Bless,
Bailey
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