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The Mind of A Servant...

"Are you in your right mind?  Aren't there unattractive, thankless people in your life whom you should be loving and serving, but whom you are about to give up on?  Maybe it is a spouse?  Your parents?  Others in the church?  Pastors often hear:  "I work my fingers to the bone in this church and what thanks do I get?"  Is that the way it is?  Your service was for thanks?  Are you in your right mind?  Servanthood begins where gratitude and applause ends.  Do you only serve people whom you like or whom you find attractive or who are like you?  Even sinners do that (Luke 6:32-34).  Christians, like Peter's mother-in-law, give diakonia because they have been healed and given diakonia by Christ (Matt 8:15)."

Tim Keller~pastor in Manhattan