Serving As You Wish You Were Served

How to you need to be served? How do you determine how to best serve those around you? What is the best way to serve and what is the best way to be served?

God invites each of us to serve those who are in need around us.

There are times when we are the ones who need to be served.

Andy Stanley once said, “Do for one what you wish you could do for many.”

Jesus said it this way in the Sermon on the Mount, “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12, ESV).

A good way to determine how to serve those around us is to ask the question, “If I had this need, how would I like to be served?”

Once we know what we would need and desire to receive in our circumstances, we can then do for others what we wished someone would do for us.

May we look to serve the needs of those around us with the same love, care, attention, and investment of time that we wished others would show us in our own time of need.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Prayer For Those Who Serve Others: “O Lord our heavenly Father, whose blessed Son came not to be served, but to serve: We ask you to bless all who, following in his steps, give themselves to the service of others especially those who are laboring in this time of plague; endue them with wisdom, patience, and courage, that they may strengthen the weak and raise up those who fall, and, being inspired by your love, may worthily minister to the suffering, the friendless, and the needy; for the sake of him who laid down his life for us, your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.”

(#45, Book Of Common Prayer, 2019).

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