We Worship The Son Of God

Most of the time when we talk about loving and serving others, we immediately think of our friends and overlook and ignore those who are not. It takes humility to devote our energies to serving those who are not our friends - the unlovable people around us. Have you ever thought about reaching out and serving those who have been rejected by society and their families? The Church has a ministry to serve and meet the needs of the prisoners and this ministry needs all of us. It will become more effective when more people get involved. But getting involved will require a life of humility because without this you cannot minister effectively to a prisoner. I have been impressed with the humility of many people such as Justice Baddoo, a judge of the Appeal Court. As a member of the Prison Ministry and its Vice Chairman he visited the condemned cells on Christmas to take part in a Christmas party with the inmates and share the gospel with them. His interpreter that day was the condemned prisoner Gemann. They greeted and embraced each other. It was such a moving testimony of the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. What the others did not know was that this was the first time that the two had met since he, as the judge had sentenced Gemann to death. He had to obey the Law of the land but that did not diminish the love and compassion of the Judge for the condemned prisoner. For me this is service and a reminder of what Jesus did for us. Your involvement in one life can minister to many people.

There are many places where Christians can serve. We can serve in the community by caring for the outcasts, those in the leprosarium, those in the psychiatric hospitals, those in the prisons, those without homes and for those without food. We can also serve one another in the Church. It takes love to help those in need and Jesus showed the way by serving.

Christians should view greatness and power differently from the way the world views it. Some people believe this means that a Christian should not want to achieve greatness. This is far from the truth. Jesus does not condemn the wish to be great. What He condemns is the way to greatness. The Christian should achieve greatness, but not the worldly way, not through bribery and corruption, cheating, immorality, and the misuse of power. God’s way is the way of serving others, the way of Mother Teresa. This is evidenced in the experience of a small boy who grew up in a non-Christian home. He used to hang out on the streets because no one ever had time for him. One Sunday as he was playing by himself on the pavement a stranger walked up and asked to join him. The boy had no one else to play with so he agreed. After the game the man invited the young boy to come to Sunday school with him. The boy agreed and went to church for the first time in his life. He was introduced to Jesus Christ that day and grew up to become a well-known Christian leader. His name is Howard Hendricks. He was able to do great things for God’s kingdom because one man cared enough to reach out to him. Do you care enough? According to D.L Moody “The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many he serves.”