I.B.S. #30

Luke 17:9

- "Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not."

Being employed in fast food, I know that you dont really get "thank you"s for doing your job becuase that's whats required of you. The things that they command you to do are the things that they also expect you to do. Not to say that you didn't feel apreciated as an employee, but in all honestly they have a standard that they keep you at, and you recieve recognition when you go above and beyond that standard. When we do the things that we aren't neccesarily told to do, that's when we recieve thanks from others. Why do we give thanks to God? because everything we recieve from Him is above and beyond what we deserve. We deserve death, but yet He blesses us all the time with life. We are blessed just to wake up in the mornings and for that we must give thanks to God. Christians serving other Christians on the mission field is almost like this serving circle; everyone serving everyone. So we constantly should be thanking one another for even the smallest acts of service that we do for eachother even if it is as small as taking the plate off your table. We also need to be making sure that we are serving one another and having the mindset that all that we do is for Christ and that we are not serving others so that they will say, "wow, what a servant" but because we truely have a heart to serve one another. I pray that I will continue to have a heart that wants to serve.

My application is to continue helping to serve meals.