WOW! I just want to start off with saying a HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported me thus far! There is still a long way to go but I am almost 1/3 of the way there! Thank You if you’ve been praying or have supported me financially! The response you have given me means the world to me!
I am a leader of an incredible sixth grade group of girls on Wednesday nights and last week I was blessed to have taught the lesson. I started by asking them if they would wash the feet of the girl sitting next to them. Automatically, some of them looked at me with disgust and said they would not even think of touching someone else’s feet. There were a couple of girls who it didn’t seem to bother, but the overall majority considered washing random feet unfathomably disgusting. I continued with the lesson and eventually brought up the fact that Jesus, the same Jesus who is the son of God, got down on his knees and washed his disciples’ feet. The girls all of the sudden understood the question from the beginning and some tried to change their answers and some just thought Jesus was being gross. I challenged them to find an opportunity over the coming week to serve someone, and honestly, I didn’t consider the idea for myself. But, I’ve found that I need to challenge myself with the same thing. It’s too easy to become over self-involved and miss hurting people who could use a servant.
The song “Give Me Your Eyes” by Brandon Heath comes to mind whenever I think of servitude. This is one of all-time favorite songs. If you’ve never heard the song, it’s about how he (Brandon) was going through life and didn’t realize all the people around him. He asks God to give him His eyes and heart for others. Here’s the chorus:
“All those people going somewhere, why have I never cared.
Give me your eyes for just one second,
Give me your eyes so I can see,
Everything that I keep missing,
Give me your love for humanity.
Give me your arms for the broken-hearted,
The ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten.
Give me Your eyes so I can see.”
Philippians 2: 5-8
“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!”
I’m working on humbling myself and being a servant, I challenge you to do the same!
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Hope you have a wonderful Easter!
