The Savior is Waiting

This was the song we were singing when Jesus yanked me out of my seat in April of 1971 in a Bible college chapel in Joplin, Missouri. What a long strange trip it's been since that time. I praise His name for all the second chances. Give Nikkimae a listen. She's good.

Be A Servant Like Your Master

Philippians 2 New International Version (NIV)

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, ² then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature^[a] God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
⁷ rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
⁸ And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

¹² Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”^[c] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life.

It still boggles my mind when I read it. Part of God actually came to earth as a man and served His creations. Jesus Christ gave up the glories and riches of heaven to spend some time with us, teaching us how to live in a way pleasing to God and then he offered His life in service to us. I am forever grateful. Thanks Lord.

Go to church tomorrow. Visit a Sunday school class or Bible class. Learn how to get yourself back with God. Put away the rebellion and the anger and the hate and submit to His will. He is waiting. Anything He asks you to give up or anything He might ask you to do is a small sacrifice for the things that await in the next life. This one is only practice anyway.  Why do it alone?