Loving Jesus, Serving Others
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Homemaking on Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:11 PM
Cooking is a challenge for me. If you’ve known me longer than two minutes, you are already aware of this bit of my personal trivia. It’s not that I burn the food or give my family salmonella – it’s just very, very tough for me to decide what to cook, and then (when that overwhelming task is complete) to actually want to make the effort to cook it.
You can imagine, then, when the occasion arises to cook for someone other than my own family, how the task takes on epic proportions. I fret over color and consistency, amount and taste. All in all, it’s a struggle.
In the last few days, I have been asked to cook for two families in our neighborhood – one a young couple who recently had their first baby, the other a family with five boys whose father is experiencing health concerns.
In both cases, I was glad to help, I was happy to have the opportunity to serve. But the truth is I would have gladly served in another way – to clean a bathroom or do a load of laundry, or maybe they need some kind of article written? That last one I can do no problem.
What they needed, however, was not an article or clean laundry or even a bathroom wiped down – they needed a meal. And so, I cooked. And it was a challenge.
I realized in the midst of those tasks that sometimes we have to push ourselves—that there are times when we must go the extra mile and do something we would not be inclined to do otherwise.
Some days we are called to be the hands and feet of Jesus and it is wonderful. But some days, it is tough—because it is not always what we would choose, or how we might feel we could serve the best.
Some days we are simply called to obey, to be Jesus to those around us through providing the service that is needed, not just the service that we want to give.
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