Can you imagine how much better businesses; schools; communities, and Governments would run if we all had a servant’s attitude? If you look real close at corporate America you can find many biblical principals at work. But the one that they have missed is the key to real success.
Mark 10:44-45 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
This goes for Pastors, Elders, Staff, leaders and also includes leaders of Ministries and leaders of Safety, First Impressions and Youth ministries. The church is no different than the world when it comes to real servitude. We love the thought of serving God, because of his great benefits; but some of us look at serving others as a consequence or a misunderstood responsibility and not the privilege that it is.
It’s great that you serve in a ministry that is different or requires a separate set of guidelines. But if you’re service separates you from Jesus and his command to Love God and others, you’re service is to man and not God!
This is the discipline that is found in serving others that you can’t find anywhere else on the earth. It doesn’t take anything special to fit in with the world or even with the average church goers. But if you’re going to go with God you have to be willing to serve the crowd without being influenced by it, and keeping you from the higher calling of God.
You can’t really hear God until you’re ready to go to the mountain. You will never do anything of lasting value hiding in the figs (Like Adam), worshipping false gods while wearing Saul’s armor, and lying to the prophet of the house about your life style, when everyone can see that you’re living in the cave of despair.
The devil wants us to be crazy enough to believe that our flesh and its gratification is the greatest thing that there is to live for. To gratify flesh by eating too much that leads to obesity, or dressing a certain way, or by living in neighborhoods that you can’t afford, driving cars that cost more than your house we are killing ourselves. Then these same people who have all this stuff have the nerve to wonder why you have a house and not a home. I have even seen flesh cause us to hurt people that we love just so it can be satisfied.
When you come to church and work in your flesh attitude, your service is done in the wrong attitude; God says you’re offering up strange fire. You can rise above your flesh. You can come out. Don’t you dare set and listen to what the world is saying to con you out of your inheritance that you have with Christ. The bible says that we are joint heirs with Christ. You can come on out of that gossip, come on out of that lying and backbiting, and put those drugs and the cigarettes down. I know a God that is able to allow you to rest in higher places.
I know we get tired of looking at the sinner and it looks as if he is getting a head in all the mess that he is doing. Don’t worry about what it looks like, God hasn’t forgotten. He sees and he knows. I don’t care who you think in this world is getting ahead or getting over on you! Isaiah said that He wanted to get us to the place, his mountain so that He could entrust us with wings of eagles. What do wings do? Wings take us higher and closer to God.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint…Bringing us closer to God!
It’s easier to start flying from a higher place…like God's mountain.
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