Servant's Heart

What does it mean to have a servant's heart? Does it mean that you let others use you in whatever manner they please? Well, I think what I have stumbled on in this area may surprise you. Jesus told us in the Bible that the first shall be last and the last shall be first. But He didn't stop there. He told us that in order to find your life, you have to lose it. And that if you want to be greatest in the Kingdom of God, you have to be the least. I think Jesus knew something that many of us find counter-intuitive. You won't find true happiness and contentment until you stop focusing on yourself, and start focusing on another person, or persons, as the case may be.

I still have yet to truly find my "purpose" in life, and the one cause that I can devote my life to. I remain optimistic that God will reveal this to me when the time comes. In the mean time, I think the best thing I can do for myself is to just befriend those God has put in my path, and show them that they are truly one of a kind, and loved deeply by their Creator. So in a strange sense, when I am serving my fellow mankind, I am actually serving myself, and God. It's all backwards, but trust me, for some reason, I get the biggest kick out of seeing other people happy. And if I have been part of that happiness for people, I feel my heart swell with joy, and I am incredibly content.

I'm not saying I have this down to a science. And I definitely screw up in this area so many times a day that its embarrassing. I'm not a saint. But I do think, from time to time, I do get it right. The Church is equated to a body, and is called the body of Christ. What does this have to do with anything? Well, what may be my calling may not be yours. The body has many different functioning parts and they all need to do their different tasks. So whereas, I may be more hands on, you may be more in the shadows, doing things that no one will ever see, but that benefit reaches far and wide. Or you could be up front and center, where everyone can see you, doing great things that way. I just hope and pray we will all start on this quest to find where our place in the body is, and to be the best part of that body we can be. That's truly being a servant at heart. Just more thoughts from the mind of Crystal =)

by: Crystal Nylander