A gentle whisper...
Was sitting in my room, pondering upon things I have to accomplish this week... and felt a sudden "oh I don't wanna do this..".
Hafta work this week and cycle there despite having the pain that I described in the earlier post. Told my employers I might not turn in on Thursday just to take a rest and heal my muscles or watever is hurting (but i dun really wanna take a day off.. haha.. it'd cost me a bit of money to not work.. haha).
Gotta come up wif a plan for O-Nite's MCing.. lead worship for church on Sunday and slowly clean up my place. Contrary to popular belief that I can lead worship just like that, leading worship something that I prepare quite a bit for. With things hanging on my mind, I felt like pressing the pause button for a while, or better still - the stop button.
Then I had a go at My Utmost For His Highest, and here is today's reading.
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THE DETERMINATION TO SERVE
Jesus also said, "Yet I am among you as the One who serves" (Luke 22:27). Paul’s idea of service was the same as our Lord’s—". . . ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake" ( 2 Corinthians 4:5 ). We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a "doormat" for others— called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior. Paul said, "I know how to be abased . . ." ( Philippians 4:12 ). Paul’s idea of service was to pour his life out to the last drop for others. And whether he received praise or blame made no difference. As long as there was one human being who did not know Jesus, Paul felt a debt of service to that person until he did come to know Him. But the chief motivation behind Paul’s service was not love for others but love for his Lord. If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and broken-hearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us from serving one another.
Paul’s understanding of how Christ had dealt with him is the secret behind his determination to serve others. "I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man . . ." ( 1 Timothy 1:13 ). In other words, no matter how badly others may have treated Paul, they could never have treated him with the same degree of spite and hatred with which he had treated Jesus Christ. Once we realize that Jesus has served us even to the depths of our meagerness, our selfishness, and our sin, nothing we encounter from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve others for His sake.
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Lord, grant me the availability to pour out every bit of myself... and the ability to sit at Your feet and fill up in order to give more.
For now, I'm physically exhausted and I WANT A NAP! =)
WillZ
Hafta work this week and cycle there despite having the pain that I described in the earlier post. Told my employers I might not turn in on Thursday just to take a rest and heal my muscles or watever is hurting (but i dun really wanna take a day off.. haha.. it'd cost me a bit of money to not work.. haha).
Gotta come up wif a plan for O-Nite's MCing.. lead worship for church on Sunday and slowly clean up my place. Contrary to popular belief that I can lead worship just like that, leading worship something that I prepare quite a bit for. With things hanging on my mind, I felt like pressing the pause button for a while, or better still - the stop button.
Then I had a go at My Utmost For His Highest, and here is today's reading.
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THE DETERMINATION TO SERVE
Jesus also said, "Yet I am among you as the One who serves" (Luke 22:27). Paul’s idea of service was the same as our Lord’s—". . . ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake" ( 2 Corinthians 4:5 ). We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a "doormat" for others— called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior. Paul said, "I know how to be abased . . ." ( Philippians 4:12 ). Paul’s idea of service was to pour his life out to the last drop for others. And whether he received praise or blame made no difference. As long as there was one human being who did not know Jesus, Paul felt a debt of service to that person until he did come to know Him. But the chief motivation behind Paul’s service was not love for others but love for his Lord. If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and broken-hearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us from serving one another.
Paul’s understanding of how Christ had dealt with him is the secret behind his determination to serve others. "I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man . . ." ( 1 Timothy 1:13 ). In other words, no matter how badly others may have treated Paul, they could never have treated him with the same degree of spite and hatred with which he had treated Jesus Christ. Once we realize that Jesus has served us even to the depths of our meagerness, our selfishness, and our sin, nothing we encounter from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve others for His sake.
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Lord, grant me the availability to pour out every bit of myself... and the ability to sit at Your feet and fill up in order to give more.
For now, I'm physically exhausted and I WANT A NAP! =)
WillZ
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