Why do you serve?

Why do we serve?

I mean really, what is the reason or motivator that keeps us serving... doing those things and tasks that are essentially no fun. For the sake of what?

Why do we serve?

Well some might say they serve because it makes them feel good inside. That serving others gives them a glimpse of inward joy, because they know at that moment they are making the world a better place...

But perhaps anyone who would have such a selfish reason to serve has probably not experienced "service" to any great length.

Because anyone who has served for a significant period of time will tell you, it gets old.

You see, when serving, we still get tired, worn out, dirty, emotionally stretched... and so on.

So in the end, can we really be people who live lives of service without some selfish motivator in the end, either it be trying to find that temporary moment of inward joy, or serving for some sort of pay check. - Because really, we are just too selfish beings to be able to do it for other reasons on our own...

Unless you follow Christ.

As Christ lives in us, and we believe in and follow Him. We are filled with a supernatural love that is beyond our own, the Love of God. - That is how we serve. We serve others and the world out of a love that is not our own, but yet fills us up and overflows out of our hearts into our minds and through our hands... and this love never runs dry. This love is beyond you.

Are you open to experiencing the love of God?

Why do you serve?

"'Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?'

'We can,' they answered.

Jesus said to them, 'You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.'

When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers.

Jesus called them together and said,'You know that the rulers of their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave- just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.'"

-Matthew 20:22-28