Day 33
How Real Servants Act
Jesus said,
“If you give even a cup of cold water
to one of the least of my followers,
you will surely be rewarded.”
Matthew 10:42 NLT
In the first spiritual gifts class I led as a pastor was an eighty-year-old woman.
At an age when most people are slowing down, Joyce said she wanted to know how God could use her.
This made us laugh. Joyce was already one of the most productive servants we’d ever known. We figured that this grandmother must have spent every morning baking so she could spend every afternoon giving it away.
On election day, for example, I used to tease other people in church. “My polling place is better than your polling place.” “Why?” they’d ask. “Because Joyce was giving away cookies at my polling place.”
The only sad part of this was … that Joyce didn’t know already how big of a servant’s heart she already had. She carried a little guilt. “I ought to do more.” But that’s the way it is with many true, True, TRUE servants, she wasn’t proud. Her service was “unconscious” rather than “conscious.” Therefore, she felt like she should be consciously doing more.
In truth however, she naturally fulfilled many of Rick Warren’s characteristics of “real servanthood” …
- Real servants make themselves available to serve.
- Real servants pay attention to needs.
- Real servants do their best with what they have.
- Real servants do every task with equal dedication.
- Real servants are faithful to their ministry.
- Real servants maintain a low profile.
Does that sound like Joyce?
Does that sound like you?
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who wants
to be unconscious
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