Stop Serving Jesus

Stop Serving Jesus

If I hired you for a job. Sent you to training. Told you story after story of what I wanted done. Gave you the best example I could give you, by showing you myself. And after taking all of this in, you said, "cool thanks for this gift of employment", "I've got some ideas of how I would like to change things a bit". "The changes I want to make are simple, and they will be somewhat effective, maybe not 'transformational' but I think they will do the trick." "You see boss, the things you ask are too great, and, you don't seem to be considering your employees comfort."

And,

If you went about this way, and other people followed you in this way, and this went on for a couple of thousand of years, you have to admit, it would be kinda hard to see things a different way.

This is what I am saying: Stop Serving Jesus - he never wanted to be the object, or the subject. If he did, he would have said different things, and done different things, and set things up differently.

So stop it.

See, at the CORE of everything God intended the cross to accomplish was a person who didn't know Him. And here is the trick that messes us up - messes me up. Is that as soon as we See him, as soon as we are at that place of surrendering to his Lordship - we have to do just that, and understand that surrendering to his Lordship means we are no longer at the centre. And here is the other trick, you gotta figure out what is at His CORE. What did God put at the CORE? What was his NEED for the cross? - simply - Reconciling man to God.

That is it.

Stop adding things.

God's CORE - the centre of his desire for humanity, is Reconciling that humanity to himself. Once Reconciled, one better get at the work of doing what is important to God - what is at his CORE.

And no, as good as work in a church is, as good as it is to hang with other Christians, as good as it is - it isn't what Jesus wanted, if it was, he would have gave us a story about how he wanted it that way.

But he didn't.

See when we get all spun out on Jesus as the centre, and Jesus at the CORE, we end up just serving him. Of just being on the team that fills communion cups, and vacuums the carpet in the building that we have illogically called a Church (Greek word Assembly - not place to Assemble) And because we are all spun out on this path of serving Him (in our own flavour we really end up just serving ourselves), I'm kicking it up a notch with some language that should grab us a bit.

Stop Serving Jesus.

And.

Go serve what he wanted served.

Don't placate to it. Don't treat it with contempt. Don't ignore it. And for Christ's sake don't reject it.

Serve it.

Find it needing water - and find a clean cup.

Find it needing clothing - and buy it new socks.

Find it needing friendship - and sit down for a pint.

Find it lonely - and sacrifice, to spend a night with it.

Find it confused - and listen.

Find it, tithe to it, make it the object, make it the CORE, make it the centre, make it the mission, make it the reason for everything.

Because.

It is the reason for everything.

It.

It, those who are as-of-yet to be reconciled to God and all the goodness he has in store for us.

It, is the reason God sent Jesus to the cross. Because, While we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Stop Serving Jesus.

Go serve the world he died for.

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