This month my team found ourselves with an unusual
assignment. We were asked to help in the
main house with serving our squad. In my
head I thought “Serving?!? So that IS our ministry? God what’s going on here?!”
Serving to me felt so foreign. I really
had to take time the first night to process this hefty task. To some of you out there you are jumping off
your seats to serve people, you enjoy preparing meals and seeing people
satisfied by your hard work. Well I am
on the opposite end of that spectrum. I
really enjoy receiving. I enjoy allowing
those who like to serve to serve me and I receive what ever is being served
with great delight! Yeah I felt like God
was just laughing at my thought process at the beginning of this month. He is pretty funny!
After the first night of serving I sat down with God and
just began to ask Him why do I have such a hard time humbling myself to serve
others. I began to write down all the
lies that I believed about serving…and there was quite a list. Here are some of them:
·
People
who serve are seeking approval from others
·
Those
who serve are really perfectionists who just do things themselves because they
will do it the right way
·
That
serving people is only cooking and cleaning
·
People
who serve do not take care of themselves
·
People
who serve do not receive well
As I wrote down a lot of these lies and more I realized
that I really need to look at how Jesus served people. I began to go through verses of being a
servant and how Jesus humbled himself to save us.
“…even as the Son of Man came not to be served
but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28
In 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 19 Paul
writes “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that
I might win more of them.”
These scriptures really began to show me if I want to be
like Jesus I need to humble myself FAST and serve people like He did. Throughout this last week as I have been
serving people and looking up how Jesus served I have just been completely
impressed with Him! He gave up
everything to serve people because He loves us. I have met all kinds of people and there are some…let’s say
interesting personalities (you know what I am talking about) and honestly would
be excruciatingly hard to serve yet Jesus died for them too! And Paul said that he would gladly make
himself a servant to all to show the way to Jesus!
All in all I am learning A LOT to say the least. I am learning that I 
can serve in a multitude
of ways that are truly enjoyable to me. I was able to help a woman pick potatoes (pic above) and I also made way to many donuts for our squad with Jenni (pic to left). I praise God for stretching me and allowing me to take this time in Romania to
learn and really absorb what He is trying to teach me.
Thanks for reading!!
