At Your Service
How can I be of service to you?
That is the first thing that comes to mind for this prompt- “service”. I love to serve. I love to help people in practical and spiritual ways. I guess it fits well with being a life coach.
Jesus said He came to serve and not be served. Quite profound for the Creator of the universe. Often leaders or celebrities want to be served, worshiped even.
Jesus was okay with giving all that up to serve us. Wow! Why?
For the joy that was set before Him. What was that joy? Each person who would believe and be brought into relationship with God the Father (and of course Himself and Holy Spirit — I don’t pretend to understand how that works. I just believe it does.)
How did Jesus serve?
Jesus served in practical ways. He provided more wine for a wedding feast. He fed people when they were hungry. He healed their bodies.
He served in spiritual ways, too. Jesus taught from the scripture. He spoke of the Kingdom in stories they could relate to, and ones they had to struggle with a bit.
The biggest act of service Jesus did was dying in my place, dying in your place.
The consequence of sin is death. God knew we could never measure up on our own and chose to pay the price Himself. (Again, I’m not claiming full understanding but full believing.) I can’t tell you why God set everything up the way He did. I can tell you that “Why?” is often the wrong question.
How can I be of service to you?
Practically and spiritually through in my writing, sharing thoughts and tools that have helped me. My coaching also serves practically and spiritually. I love to ask questions that lead to a breakthrough. It can be a new strategy for managing chores or insight to heal a wound in your soul. I love both. Both bring freedom, confidence, and hope. Both matter.
I have more writing at www.MukkoveJohnson.com and you can learn more about my service as a life coach there, too.
How do you like to serve?
This is my 25th post in a writing challenge by Janis Cox. She has given 28 prompts. I have committed (being accountable to myself here!) to write for 15 minutes a day on one of her prompts (this one was service). I then have 15 minutes to polish and post so there’s not much polishing. As I said in my first post of this challenge it’s getting me back to writing instead of producing. Still, I hope my thoughts are a blessing and you’ll keep reading.
This story is published in Koinonia — stories to encourage, entertain, and empower you in your faith, food, fitness, family and fun.
