Called To Serve Anyway

“The greatest among you will be your servant.” (Matt. 23.11)

We need to learn to serve others, as we would like to be served. We may not know the outcome when we are stuck between two situations with one decision that is needed to be made. We may even be in a struggle of choices and not knowing which path God wants us to travel down. We need to have faith, we to quiet our mind and trust in God that he will speak to us and then we need to learn how to listen.

How Can We Serve?

We must constantly remember that our Lord, Jesus, said: “The greatest among you will be your servant.” (Matt. 23.11). Once again, this verse can be taken out of context, but if we reflect it on our own-selves, can we see how to serve God and have faith.

By doing this we must attempt to create habits and develop good or better practices. Practicing selfless habits will help perfect ourselves. We have to be careful and ensure that we are not just going through the motions, but investing our whole hearts into what we are doing and what we are trying to accomplish.

Our first steps towards making great decisions and developing better habits should start at home. This is done by showing love. Who better to share and mentor than family first? Being disciples of Christ and developing our own ‘home church’ will help develop a better community in time.

With expressing love from home, we then are a good example for our neighbor. If we look at what St. Mother Teresa had shared as well as what she had posted on her wall in her convent which was called the “Do It Anyway” poem. We need to read this poem and do our best to use it as a tool to help us understand the importance of serving.This version was found written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta:

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

 If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

 What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

  If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

  The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

  Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

  In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.