If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet —John 13:14
I love my daughter. She is very cool. Recently I asked if she had ever considered being a missionary. She said that she had until she realized she didn’t like kids or bugs. With those two dislikes how she ever serve as a missionary?
It’s clearly the way we think. . . of serving God in far away places with radically different environs or with people we just don’t handle very well.
That’s not how missionary service really is. It is being willing to perform the most menial task in His name, whether it’s washing feet, listening to the broken hearted, or raking leaves. This kind of service is so important that Jesus made an example for us the night before He died.
There are many spiritual needs out there and most can be met with little spiritual expertise. and no exotic travel. We can listen to the lonely. We can help the disadvantaged. We can pray with the lost and confused.
God places these opportunities in our path. We don’t have to travel to places with strange creatures or strange people. There are plenty of those right where we are.
Serve and be blessed. And, daughter of mine, you’re doing just fine.
Be blessed.
Nick (Dad)
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