“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.”Īccording to the grace given to Paul, in other words his apostleship, he gives everyone a command that they should understand. Start with a Servant’s Heart (Rom 12: 1, 3) Let’s look through the verses we have read and see how we can find our place in the body of Christ. In God’s kingdom, the church, there is a place for everyone and everyone should find their place. God has gifted each and every one of us to have a place to serve Him. (READ SCRIPTURE) In the body of Christ, everyone has a place to serve. Romans 12:1 states “Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship.” A good translation of this would be “because of all that God has done, we should serve him in the way that we have been given to serve Him.” How? With what are you and I supposed to serve God? Romans 12:3-8 give us the answer. Today we will talk about spiritually gifted ministry. The second track that we must lay gives purpose and meaning to our lives as children of the Lord. Today we start on the second train track that we will lay that will take us into the future as a church. “What do you think of the bird, mom?” She replied excitedly, “Delicious!” He soon called her and sure enough she had received the bird. After about a week, he became concerned that she hadn’t received the bird. He immediately bought the bird for fifty thousand dollars and express shipped it to his mother. She spends most of her time at the house alone just watching TV. He spent weeks trying to find the perfect gift when finally he heard about a bird which could sing opera, speak four-thousand words, and could even speak in different languages. On the idea of purpose, there is a story about a rich man who wanted to buy his mother something she had never had and that only he could afford. When they leave, even if you sometimes complained about having to care for them, you miss them and you miss your reason for living. Many times its not just your baby leaving that hurts and makes you sad but the fact that the whole reason you have lived for the last 20 years was to take care of that child/children. We see this in the empty nest syndrome that most parents, especially mothers, feel as their children leave home. They need you as the man or woman of the household to work to support them because they cannot support themselves. You may hate your job but you know that if you quit you can’t feed your family. Sometimes just the fact that others rely on us can keep us going even when we want to quit. It gives purpose and meaning to our lives. Feeling that we need to be in someone’s life or doing a certain job makes us feel important.
Every human being desires to feel needed and wanted.
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