Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Intimacy Serves

The mark of our intimacy with Jesus is not how awesome our experiences with him are. Nor how long they are. Nor how often.

The mark of our intimacy with him is how we serve others. The Bible says it better than I ever could:
“The son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45).

“[Jesus], who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” (Philippians 2:6-7).

“In humility, consider others better than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3b)

We reflect the person we spend time around the most. Jesus was the biggest servant humanity ever saw or ever will. If we truly have intimacy with him, we'll show that by serving those around us, and loving doing so.

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