Why Would G-D Choose Me?
To be a Servant of Course!
“In a Word it is, Love!”
When G-D loves there is nothing He will not do for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.
And He is longsuffering toward others who walk in their own ways and rebel against Him, He patiently waits for them to accept and Serve Him!
There is a partnership formed by G-D our Father with His creation, man. Although G-D can do all things He gave special commands to man so that he would fulfill his part of the covenant and the Father would complete His side of the covenant!
Whereby a legal document is created out of distrust of the other partner in the relationship, “Covenant is based upon Love for the other partner in the relationship!”
Years ago, I worked for a large company and was the warehouse manager. I had been transferred from a city 50 miles away and was sent there to open a new facility and do all ordering of product and to support the sales department.
The 15-20 salesmen who were covering that area previously had been independently set up in what were essentially small individual rented warehouses. These salesmen had the ability to come and go as they pleased with no time restraints as to how they picked up and loaded their trucks.
When the new facility finally opened, there were adjustments to new time schedules and different methods of operations. For all of these men and women the actual workload would be less than they had been accustomed but still it was a change and we seldom like change!
There were three men who despised the new methods and me and at first made it quite clear that they did not approve. Later they seemed to be going along with the new procedures but behind the scenes, they secretly attempted to undermine my authority by spreading lies and creating confusion among the other employees.
Finally one day, I walked into the men’s room and discovered that someone had gone to the bathroom on the walls and created a huge mess. I knew the three men who were responsible. They had been doing all they could to spread discord and that had not worked so they had resorted to this!
They knew that I was a Christian and actually one of the three had also claimed to be a believer, but it was obvious that his confession and his actions were not in alignment.
When I walked in and observed that mess, I must confess my first instinct was to get angry and I quickly rehearsed in my mind what I would do to take revenge.
A short time later, I found my self cleaning up the bathroom and as I was cleaning, I began praying for these men. I prayed especially for the leader who professed to be a Christian.
I said something to this affect, Lord, “more than my vengeance I want these men to truly love and serve You all the days of their lives.”
The theme here is “How do you view yourself? Do you view yourself as a servant?
While I know what it is like to clean up after someone else’s mess and I am sure, that you the reader have also had to deal with the aftermath of the actions of others.
But just stop and think for a moment, how many messes have you & I made in our lives? And someone had to face a situation that we created, that we caused and left for someone else to fix, to repair, to clean up?
Yet He who loves us and desires our very best, desperately wants to aid to us in changing our attitudes toward Him and those around us to be the Servant in the situation, to speak truth in love and be the Servant, “who gives back that which he took not.”
Man’s intellect says to promote yourself, do not bother with the mundane, and let someone else deal with that while you pursue the higher things. If you take no concern for yourself, no one else will either. These are the thoughts and beliefs of a selfish world.
Why would G-D choose me?
To be a servant of course!
Because Jesus came not as a King but as a servant!
“Greater Love has no man than he lay down his life for his friend.”
As a servant, that is exactly what we are doing! We are laying down our lives one-day at a time, in all the everyday, variety, garden type, mundane happenings.
Until we are prepared to clean up the bathrooms in this world, to be that “Servant” where we are placed, to do it joyfully, pray for those who persecute us and to be that light and salt that the Lord commanded us to be…
We will never truly understand His kingdom!