Friday 27 April 2007

Selfless serving

“But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.” - Matthew 14v16

There are times when putting others first is not easy. During times of personal challenges and difficulties we sometime just want to withdraw to ourselves and not deal with people. I don’t know about wanting to deal with people, but there was a time was Jesus suffered a personal situation and sought to get alone.

His cousin John had just been beheaded. When the news came to Jesus the Bible says that He decided to go off in a boat to a quiet, secluded place. Because of all that He had done the people would not leave Him alone. He looked out and saw the crowd, but instead of being put-off by them, His heart was once again moved with compassion.

His disciples encouraged Him to send them away – but in spite of the personal feelings He had He knew that these people needed ministered to. “They don’t need to go – feed them.” Now feeding them is another story, but for the moment lets remember Jesus’ attitude.

We all need a time a part, but there are times when even then, we must lay our feelings aside in order to serve.

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