Being a Servant

Today in our modern culture the idea of being a servant is pretty unpopular. Everybody wants to steer his own course, but that’s not the renewed mind. The renewed mind doesn’t say, “What can I get?” It says, “What can I give?” It doesn’t seek to exalt itself, but to humble itself. The great evangelist Moody said this about himself, When I was a young man I used to think that God had His gifts arranged out on shelves, and that the best gifts were on the top shelves. But he said, Now I’ve learned that it’s the opposite. The best gifts are on the bottom shelves. You don’t reach up for them. You stoop down for them.