Yesterday on my flight from Houston to Atlanta, I was staring out the window imagining what would happen if a large bird crashed into the airplane, when the poetic words of Bob Dylan flooded through my iPod.
“You’re going to have to serve somebody. It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you’re going to have to serve somebody.”
My mind let the severed bird images go, why I contemplated the truth of those words. All humans have this in common, we all serve somebody. It doesn’t matter what walk of life you come from you still serve someone.
So here is the question, If your going to have to serve somebody, who are you going to serve?
I, like a good World Racer, would say Jesus, but the truth is I don’t always serve Jesus. Almost every day, I would prefer to serve myself.
There is a part of me that doesn’t want to be on the World Race. There is a part of me that doesn’t want to learn to love others. There is a part of me that doesn’t want to serve the Lord.
But a bigger part of me knows that serving myself only leads to death. In fact, one of my favorite pass times is sabotaging my life.
So I choose to intentionally serve the Lord with my life. I choose to walk into situations that will teach my hard heart the truth of God’s love. The truth that He is a self sacrificing master with pure intentions and perfect motives.
This is our team playing cards in the Atlanta Airport. We were unable to board our flight to South Africa because of some issues with visas/ flying on a one way ticket. Last night we went back to the AIM base in Gainesville. Part of the group will try to leave tonight, and the rest of us will try to leave tomorrow night. Please pray for our travels.
