Just a Servant

Just A Servant

But by love serve one another. Galatians 5:13 - (KJV)

I walked into a large home supply store, and there he stood, seventy-three years old, holding a smoke alarm in his hand. Four months ago, no one expected him to live through a reaction to the anesthetic that was used to put him to sleep for knee replacement surgery. He has just been able to walk again, and was buying a smoke alarm - to replace a defective one in the home of a shut-in lady in his church. He was doing it yesterday - because he is to enter the hospital today to have the other knee replaced - and he did not want her to have to wait until he recovered.

My friend mows the church lawn, clips the hedge, repairs the plumbing, replaces the light bulbs, and does whatever comes along that needs doing. He is the unpaid maintenance man.

He has never taught a Sunday school lesson; he has never offered a public prayer. His name has never been at the head of a single church committee.

At seventy-three, he keeps the church facilities, and maintains a number of homes of shut-in women. He is just a servant. By love he has learned to serve others! After all, he follows a servant!
..Virgil Lee by way of Eternal Ink (eternal_ink@associate.com) and Christian Voices (christianvoices@att.net)