[Wednesday's Devotional] - Humble Hearted Servants

I consider myself very fortunate that I do not have to do paid work. I have a husband who is very supportive of that, and I have the freedom and opportunities to fill my time with things I enjoy. For me this generally involves being around and helping others. I have several voluntary things I am involved in, all of which involve me being around other people, and generally helping. I like to feel I am making a difference and helping others with the mundane things. I enjoy making a very small difference.

However, I’ve found recently that I have had a little less enthusiasm for some of those things, and as such have also had a little less patience with those people I am around. I know I have, on a few occasions, acted in a manner unlike me and said things I would not normally say. The little things have got to me, and I have become frustrated very easily. On one particular day, I clashed with a group of people who were in the same premises as me, both of us trying to fulfil tasks, both of us busy at our jobs of helping and serving others. I got more and more annoyed by things they said and did, and acted in a manner I was very upset about afterwards. I was very disappointed with myself for letting it get to me.

The reading that I probed that day put me back on track very quickly.

“Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of God?” Mark 9:33

I realised I was not acting with the humility I should have had. I was getting annoyed when people did not thank me or were ungrateful for what I was doing. I realised I needed to humble myself again and not expect things in return for my serving others. I reminded myself that I wasn’t doing it for my gain, but doing it in God’s service. I knew I had to ask God to change my heart again and restore a humble servant heart as I served God and his children, and not seek recognition or reward for what I did. It is all for God and God alone, I don’t need thanks or recognition. My father is watching and knows, and that is all I need.

Is there a situation you need to ask God to come into and change your heart? Do you need your humble servant heart restoring? If so, ask God to come and change it so you can serve in humility once again.

Corinne Mason.