Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers is a great attitude adjuster for us! I have included a portion of it below:
The Determination To Serve
The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. — Matthew 20:28
Paul’s idea of service is the same as Our Lord’s: “I am among you as He
that serveth”; “ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” We have the idea that
a man called to the ministry is called to be a different kind of being from
other men. .... “I know how to be
abased,” says Paul. This is Paul’s idea of service – “I will spend myself to
the last ebb for you; you may give me praise or give me blame, it will make no
difference. So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I
am his debtor to serve him until he does.” The mainspring of Paul’s service is
not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ. If we are devoted to the cause of
humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet
with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is
love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.
Paul’s realization of how Jesus Christ had dealt with him is the secret
of his determination to serve others. “I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
and injurious” – no matter how men may treat me, they will never treat me with
the spite and hatred with which I treated Jesus Christ. When we realize that
Jesus Christ has served us to the end of our meanness, our selfishness, and
sin, nothing that we meet with from others can exhaust our determination to
serve men for His sake.
I LOVE the underlined part above! When we are in intimate fellowship with the LORD, we will be moved with compassion, as He often was. BUT, we need to act out of our LOVE for HIM, rather than out of emotion over the needs of people! HE must always have the FIRST position in our hearts, and then what and who HE loves! When we keep our priorities in the right place, there is nothing that can stop us from fulfilling our God-given ministry! Here is Hillsong with one of my favorite ACTION songs! "GO"!
Shalom in Him!
