Scheduled Service
- by Aaron
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in By Aaron
This is the first real blog entry of 2014, the idea for it (which I will call crazy) came from riding around in my friend’s car. His car is older and has a computer HUD (heads up display) that was probably the best thing you could buy in a car (if it was a 1996 Grand Cherokee).
I was asking a lot of questions about this HUD, I seem to do that a lot. As he answered my myriad of questions he also informed me that a lot of the sensors are bad so the HUD doesn’t always know what actually works and what doesn’t. About two minutes into the car ride the computer brought up another notification that said, “perform service.” I started to laugh to myself because if none of the sensors work, then you should probably perform some type of service.
I also thought how convenient it would be for our souls to have some sort of HUD that could identify all of our bad sensors and remind us to perform service. In 1 Timothy 4:1-2 Paul says Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared…
Having no ‘sensors’ in us seems to lead to a seared conscience, which leads to insincerity, which puts us squarely in the realm of devoting ourselves to living life the way a demon would; opposed to God. The best way to avoid all this, when our lives have been surrendered to Christ, is to "perform service."
Our God came in the person of Jesus, as a servant, and calls us to serve as well. In Luke 22:26-27 Jesus says, But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. Jesus knew that one of the aspects He placed in us, to get our eyes and minds off of ourselves, was to be intimately acquainted with service.
So, in 2014, perform service, not because we are loved based on our performance, but as a response to what our great God has done for us.
I was asking a lot of questions about this HUD, I seem to do that a lot. As he answered my myriad of questions he also informed me that a lot of the sensors are bad so the HUD doesn’t always know what actually works and what doesn’t. About two minutes into the car ride the computer brought up another notification that said, “perform service.” I started to laugh to myself because if none of the sensors work, then you should probably perform some type of service.
I also thought how convenient it would be for our souls to have some sort of HUD that could identify all of our bad sensors and remind us to perform service. In 1 Timothy 4:1-2 Paul says Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared…
Having no ‘sensors’ in us seems to lead to a seared conscience, which leads to insincerity, which puts us squarely in the realm of devoting ourselves to living life the way a demon would; opposed to God. The best way to avoid all this, when our lives have been surrendered to Christ, is to "perform service."
Our God came in the person of Jesus, as a servant, and calls us to serve as well. In Luke 22:26-27 Jesus says, But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. Jesus knew that one of the aspects He placed in us, to get our eyes and minds off of ourselves, was to be intimately acquainted with service.
So, in 2014, perform service, not because we are loved based on our performance, but as a response to what our great God has done for us.
