{"id":38171,"date":"2025-11-18T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38171"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:06:27","slug":"251119-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251119-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dose of Servanthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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God\u2019s cure for the common life includes a strong dose of servanthood. Timely reminder.\u00a0As you celebrate your unique design, be careful.\u00a0Don\u2019t so focus on what you love to do that you neglect what needs to be done. A 3:00 AM diaper change fits in very few sweet spots. Visiting your sick neighbor might not come naturally to you.\u00a0Still, the sick need to be encouraged and diapers need changing.<\/p>\n

The world needs servants. People like Jesus, who did not come to be served, but to serve. He chose remote Nazareth over center-stage Jerusalem, his dad\u2019s carpentry shop over a marble-columned palace, and three decades of anonymity over a life of popularity. He selected prayer over sleep, the wilderness over the Jordan, feisty apostles over obedient angels.\u00a0I\u2019d have gone with the angels, given the choice.\u00a0Not Jesus. He picked the people.\u00a0He came to serve! May we do the same.<\/p>\n

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God\u2019s cure for the common life includes a strong dose of servanthood. Timely reminder. As you celebrate your unique design, be careful. Don\u2019t so focus on what you love to do that you neglect what needs to be done. A 3:00 AM diaper change fits in very few sweet spots. Visiting your sick neighbor might not come naturally to you. Still, the sick need to be encouraged and diapers need changing.<\/p>\n

The world needs servants. People like Jesus, who did not come to be served, but to serve. He chose remote Nazareth over center-stage Jerusalem, his dad\u2019s carpentry shop over a marble-columned palace, and three decades of anonymity over a life of popularity. He selected prayer over sleep, the wilderness over the Jordan, feisty apostles over obedient angels. I\u2019d have gone with the angels, given the choice. Not Jesus. He picked the people. He came to serve! May we do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38174,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions\/38174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}