Servants Maintain a Low Profile Rick Warren Real servants maintain a low profile. Servants dont promote or call attention to themselves. Instead of acting to impress and dressing for success, they put on the apron of humility, to serve one another. (1 Peter 5:5 TEV) If recognized for their service, they humbly accept it but dont allow notoriety to distract them from their work. Paul spoke about a kind of service that appears to be spiritual but is really just a put-on, a show to get attention. He called it eye service, serving in order to impress people with how spiritual we are. This was a sin of the Pharisees. They turned helping others, giving, and even prayer into a performance for others. Jesus hated this attitude and warned, When you do good deeds, dont try to show off. If you do, you wont get a reward from your Father in heaven. (Matthew 6:1 CEV) Real servants dont serve for the approval or applause of others. They live for an audience of One. You wont find many real servants in the limelight; in fact, they avoid it whenever possible. They are content with quietly serving in the shadows. You may be serving in obscurity in some small place, feeling unknown and unappreciated. Listen: God put you where you are for a purpose! He has every hair on your head numbered, and he knows your address.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:36:02 +0000
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