Love the Lord

Serving Jesus is inconvenient!

Love this quote by Helen Roseveare. (See below)

I am concerned that we as the church have made serving Jesus pretty. We’ve created a microwaveable, Hollywoodesque culture in American Christianity when it comes to serving Jesus. We’ve condensed our serving Jesus to a timeframe rather than a lifestyle.

I wish I could say serving Jesus is always a blast.

I wish I could say you always get a warm fuzzy.

I wish I could say that it will always turn out the way you mapped it out.

I wish I could say you won’t get hurt.

I wish I could say every ministry opportunity ends with cool music in the background and each person surrenders their life to Christ.

But...

That’s not always true.

There is a spiritual cost to serving Jesus and sometimes the situations you will find yourselves in will be downright discouraging as you minister to broken people, but the result is not the most important. It’s the process. It’s the process of God using sticky situations to bring glory to Him and to refine us to be more like Him.

One thing I can tell you-every moment of serving Jesus is worth the cost—EVERY MOMENT...even if things don’t turnout the way you anticipate. Even if you are taken advantage of. Even if you have to get your hands dirty. Even if you don’t get to put a perfect picture on your social media.

As you give him your heart through obedience, there will be times your heart is broken due to things you can’t fix, or people that won’t accept the extravagant love of Jesus or your step of obedience doesn’t end in a desirable or positive outcome .

Regardless of how you feel, keep serving generously....keep obeying the Gentle Whisper...continue to assume the attitude and position of a servant....

BECAUSE...

You will make Him famous.

You will experience an uncontainable joy

You will be in great company.

And...

You will be highly inconvenienced.

AND HE IS SO WORTH IT!

“Adopt the same attitude of Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross.” Philippians 2:5-8