Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, help us to see that the bottom
line of this amazing life we have been called to here on earth is not to serve
ourselves, to win friends, or to influence people, but to serve you—regardless
of the cost. Help us to have the
strength and the courage to do that today.
Amen.
Scripture: Luke 6:20-26
Journal: What do the list of Blessings do within you
today? What about the list of Woes? Where is God speaking to you today in these
verses? What is he saying?
Reflection:
Real training for service asks for a hard and often
painful process of self-emptying. The
main problem of service is to be the way without being “in the way.” And if there are any tools, techniques and
skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeds and
to clip the branches, that it, to take away the obstacles for real growth and
development. Training for service is not
a training to become rich but to become voluntarily poor; not to fulfill
ourselves but to empty ourselves; not to conquer God but to surrender to his
saving power. (Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Almighty God, who sent Jesus to suffer and die
for our sake, help us to count the cost of genuine service and by your grace to
follow through suffering to joy and through death to resurrection. Through Christ our Lord, we pray. Amen. (A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and
Other Servants by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck)
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