Service

5-9-21 Sermon Notes“Reconnecting Through Service”
In the book, God’s Little Devotional Book for Graduates, the author tells an interesting story about (or all things) mother giraffes. When a baby giraffe is born, it falls about ten feet to the ground. Rude awakening! Within seconds, it will roll into an upright position with its legs tucked under its body. The mother giraffe will then lower her head just long enough to check over the baby giraffe…and then do something that seems unreasonable: she kicks her baby, sending it sprawling head over heels. If it doesn’t get up, she kicks it again, until the calf finally stands on its wobbly legs. What does mother giraffe do next? She kicks it off its feet! Why in the world would she do that? She wants it to remember how it got up.
In the wild, baby giraffes have to be able to get up as quickly as possible in order to stay with the herd and avoid becoming lunch for lions and hyenas and such. The first lesson that a baby giraffe learns from its mother then is this: Get up, get over it, and get on with it.
Doesn’t this sound like something your mom taught you? Doesn’t it sound like something mothers do every day themselves? Take the story of Simon Peter’s mother-in-law, for instance:
38 After leaving the synagogue he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. 39 Then he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them. (Luke 4: 38-39 NRSV)
Serving is not just something we do. It is who we are. It is an honor and a blessing to serve others!
See you Sunday,
Pastor Sam