I was quickly convicted that there are too many areas in life in which my acts of charity or my acts of kindness are charitable and kind primarily toward me. I'll serve you if it somehow serves me. I'll give to you if I receive some tangible reward in the end. But if my serving or my giving interferes with my big plans, if it gets in the way of what I really want, that's where I object, that's where I pull back, that's where I say, "I cannot do it. It's impossible. It's ridiculous to even ask." At too many times and in too many ways, I am like this anonymous relative, this man whose actions earned him no named place in this story, this man who is here to serve as a contrast with Boaz—Boaz whose actions point us to Christ, whose love is evidence of a transformed heart and transformed affections.
-T.Challies
How often is that the posture of my own heart, serve when there's something in it for me. Rather, correct me, serve as Christ served to the very end.
1 comment:
amen - luke 17:7-10
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