Pizza Hut happy-hour, you know the score! You pay your pennies and from that moment on, it's all about you and how much double-crusted pepperoni and pineapple you can push through your face. After all, waiters are for wimps; it's so much simpler cutting out the middle man and digging your own greedy little mitts into the feast.
If only life was a free-for-all-buffet where you could forget about everybody else, and reach your grubby little hands into what you wanted, no questions asked.
The frightening thing is, for many of us, that's how we are. We don't listen to the quiet kid at school because we're too busy making ourselves heard. We don't care whose feelings we tread on so long as we're feeling on top. Or we don't volunteer to help clean the church up because we think someone else will do it.
Putting yourself first is not God's way. Getting what you want and forgetting the rest of them maybe OK in Pizza Hut, but it's not a good way to live your life. The Bible says the opposite in fact: '...Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment...' (Romans 12:3NIV).
'Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time' (1 Peter 5:6 NIV).
So, forget 'self-service' and start 'serving others.' Remember you don't have to go to the opposite end of the earth to serve others. You an serve right in your own community. Offer to help at the next Church sale, offer your talent to your kids school or even just offer to help an elderly neighbour in getting them some grocery items. It can be easy to help others, just look around and I'm sure you will see someone who could use that extra bit of help!
If God has placed in your heart to go to another country then of course follow his direction but just remember serving others is done in many ways and in may locations! If we all go to Africa or South America who will look after the community we live in??
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