Sometimes I wake praying, but wondering if I’m doing all required of me to be fitted for service in the coming kingdom. The Bible teaches both that the Lord is returning for a people prepared and that there is a position prepared for each of us. Service and servanthood are the key, finding and fitting the matching door, unlocking our life’s reason for existence in this realm. This realm’s life is the doorway into function and placement in eternity.
I wonder, as I look back over an adulthood of service- ambitious service, grudging service, weary and resentful service- occasionally punctuated with moments of great and noble sacrifice- whom I was really serving. What I REALLY need (as far as I know) is the Lord’s help in knowing whom and how to serve. I don’t have to be great in this life to be great in the next. Greatness doesn’t necessarily lead to greatness, just as smallness doesn’t say one’s life has been insignificant. Eternal life, here AND there, is embraced through a life of serving others into their own, enlarging, encounters with Christ.
Dear Lord Jesus, please do keep me ( us) on the right track. Help me (us) to remain engaged in your chosen pathway, not charting my (our) own course; as if I (we) knew where and how my (our) role was to end up. Dear Lord Jesus teach and strengthen us, with all humility, to willingly spend and be spent, without misjudging the value in your expensing of our life’s time and resources.