oh what to do...?

Oh what to do... 

We face choices on a daily basis. Am I going to plan my time around my needs, or around the needs of others? Am I going to serve others or try to force them to serve me?

Think about this for a moment. Jesus, the Son of God, did not come to earth so that people could serve Him. Instead, he came to serve others.

The attitude of submission, detailed in Ephesians 5:21, sets a clear context for the familiar verses that follow:

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:22-25).

This is undoubtedly one of the most difficult and misunderstood passages of the Bible. But notice how the theme of “submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ” runs through it. Wives submit to their husbands as the church does to Christ. And husbands, given the responsibility to lead in a marriage, are to love their wives “as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

We each have different roles but as we work out these roles the overall attitude is one of selflessness—of regarding others as more important than ourselves, just as Christ did for us (Philippians 2:1-11).

We do this out of reverence for Christ, who set the example of submitting His desires and will in order to serve us and to fulfill God’s will. This is the Christ who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28).

Be Blessed... but strive to be a Blessing to others 1st.