10 Keys to Servanthood

Key number 6: Servants do what it takes, and love it!

One of the most important things that we need to realize is that there is a big difference between a slave and a servant: a slave works for wages, begins work at clock in time and knocks off at the end of the day and has no real care for the work outside of that, but a servant has a lifestyle of work based on love for the master and finds rest and recreation under the roof of the house.

Having said this, we can get under the illusion that we have to love the work before we are willing to put our hand to it, when in reality we often need to serve first before we develop a love for the work because ultimately it is a reflection of our love for the master.

I think that maturity says “you don’t need to feel like we love the work to know that we do”

The first step to understanding this is investment. In Matt 6:21 says that “wherever your treasure is there will your heart be also”, so if begin to invest our time, finances and effort then we automatically begin to develop a love in those areas.

Let’s continue to develop a love for Gods expression of his Kingdom which is the local church by investing our time, finances and effort weather we like it or not and let us refuse to let our feelings sabotage excellence in the house simply because we don’t like doing something.