For the Love of Us All

WITNESS

4-8-13

A SERVANT’S HEART

We are called

To be servant’s of God

We are called

To be

Servants of the world

Does that

Sound strange to you

It does to me

Yet when the brothers-James and John

Jesus’ apostles

Asked to sit at his right and left hands

When he comes into glory

This was Jesus’ response:

“You know

That those who are regarded

As rulers of the Gentiles

Lord it over them

And their high officials

Exercise authority over them

Not so with you

Instead whoever wants to

Become great among you

Must be your servant

And whoever

Wants to be first

Must be slave to all

For even the Son of Man

Did not come to be served

But to serve

And to give his life

As a ransom for many”                                                                             Mark 10:42-45

Are you serious Lord

Our culture

Basically tells us

That if we are NOT number 1

That we are nothing

Yet you are telling us

That to be like you

That we are to be beneath all

WHAT A DIFFICULT LESSON

WHAT A DIFFICULT TEACHING

Yet we KNOW HE is right

For he did not

Just talk the talk

He walked the walk

And died-mocked-and humiliated

But ROSE again

Because of his FAITH in his Father

I ALWAYS wanted

To be number 1

I wanted to be the one

To SAVE the world

Yet because of

My health and financial situations

It is others

FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Who have STEPPED up

TO HELP ME

Yet I continue

To TRY to have a LOVING HEART

And TRY to be a UNIFYING FORCE

In today’s world

And I can honestly say

I DON’T CARE if I am in last place

And you shouldn’t be either

LOOK around

You are in GOOD company

“Your attitude

Should be the same as that

Of Christ Jesus

Who being-in very nature God

Did NOT consider equality with God

Something to be grasped

But made himself nothing

Taking the very nature

Of a servant

Being made in human likeness

And being found

In appearance as a man

He humbled himself

And became obedient to death

Even death on a cross

Therefore God exalted him

To the highest place

And gave him the name

That is ABOVE every name

That at the name of JESUS

Every knee should bow

In heaven and on earth

And under the earth

And every tongue confess

That Jesus Christ is Lord

To the GLORY of God the Father”                                                               

Philippians 2:5-11

Dear Lord-we pray

HELP us to

Live a life courteous and pleasing

To you

And to all

And that

We have a heart

FULL OF HUMILITY and servant hood

JUST LIKE YOUR SON

IN JESUS’ NAME……..

Robert P. Wallman

3-23-13

Ps       We may not be able to save others

           We may not even be able to save ourselves

           We have one master-GOD

           Let us GO OUT into the world as his SERVANTS

Inspired by an article in Living Faith magazine by Heather King

WITNESS         4-8-13