Service

It was a really good day and I enjoyed myself quiet a bit in it. I like it when you are told something, but then the next day you experience it. Rob just told me the other night that service is something that I have been lacking in my life. For reading and prayer are good but sometimes those things do not do anything for you, in the fact that they can be pretty blaw sometimes. Going on from there he commented on my own life, saying that the most fulfilled time that he has ever see me was after I returned from Mexico. I was ready for change and ready to leave it all being just to go out and serve the people. Today I felt the truth of that once again, for it has been weeks that I have felt fulfilled by anything… reading, prayer, friends, even sin that I am sorry to say that I have engaged in, but then today when I was serving people at a service station I felt really good. I was happy, I was joyful and I loved every minute of it. I loved pumping people’s gas and talking with them, sometimes about nothing, but yet I got to met and talk to people who I would never even look at on the street. Instead I talked to this guy with a bald head, but long hair around the sides. We talked about me and talked about him and in that three to five minutes I connected with another person in this world without even trying. It felt good to just talk with this guy for no reason. Service, how can something that simple be so powerful that it can combat the couple weeks of depression and loneliness that I have suffered through? This time in my life I am relatively free of all things and responsibilities if I want to. So why wouldn’t I do all that I can to serve the people all around me that need Christ while I wait for the next step in my life.
Something that I don’t think about much about is the opposite side of my service and how that makes the other people feel. But because I live in a small town my mother hears about my good deeds from the old people who love to talk. While filling in a while back at the service station, I helped this old lady by taking her car through the carwash. Explaining to her how it works and that all she has to do is watch the signs and stop here… Later that week my mom came up to me and told me about how this old lady at the senior center was so impressed and blessed by my service. The sad thing about all of this is that I was only doing what comes natural for me, but the truth about all this is that people suck! So when people like me come by it is something abnormal and admirable. Oh Church we have such an opportunity to show Christ in the actions of our daily life and jobs. You may think that doing the right thing goes unnoticed, but someone is watching.