And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
(Mark 1:29-31 ESV)
I just think we as church goers have an unhealthy mindset that church is a place for us to be served and fed and talent care of by others and by God. I know I have that attitude a lot of the time I just go in and out and it is all about me. Even just little things like do I sit with a friend or a guest of the church and welcome them.
Yet I love how this woman is healed and immediately begins to serve. In a similar way I want to grow up about my faith and be an adult who feeds himself and doesn't always go in to church being ready to be fed. I want to be asking: how can I serve? Because that is what Jesus did too. When he finds out about John the Baptists death and goes alone to a quiet place a crowd follows him. And even then in that time of sadness he loves and serves the people in word and leads his disciples who are also grieving because many of them were Johns disciples to serve. Yet he said they got the rest they need in going away. I think it is because the rest we need is to do the will of God.
But lord I am lazy and selfish and I ask for your help as I try to change live it of a new heart to serve.
Amen.
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