Don’t focus so much on what you love to do that you neglect what needs to be done.  A 3:00 a.m diaper change fits in very few sweet spots!  Visiting your sick neighbor might not come naturally to you.  Still, the sick need to be encouraged, garages need sweeping, and diapers need changing.

The world needs servants. People like Jesus, who “did not come to be served, but to serve.”  Jesus chose remote Nazareth over center-stage Jerusalem, his dad’s carpentry shop over a marble-columned palace, and three decades of anonymity over a life of popularity.  Jesus selected prayer over sleep, the wilderness over the Jordan. 

I’d have gone with angels.  I’d have built my apostle team out of Gabriel and Michael.  Not Jesus. He picked people!  When they feared the storm, he stilled it.When they had no food for the multitude, he provided it. 

Jesus came to serve!  So should we.

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Christ In You

“No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.”  John 3:5, NLT

When you believe in Christ, Christ works a miracle in you. “When you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit” (Eph. 1:13, NLT). 

You are permanently purified and empowered by God himself. The message of Jesus to the religious person is simple: It’s not what you do. It’s what I do. I have moved in. And in time you can say with Paul, “I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20, NLT).

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