Focused Relationship.

A group that I volunteer with, recently held a focus study for the people that we serve. They were asked what they liked/didn't like about the service being provided. They said that the one thing that they really liked was that it is always the same people working when they came to the pick up site. With the same people working nearly every week, they/we can build a relationship with each other. We get to know them by name and vice versa. The same goes for the volunteers. The more that we work together, the more that we get to know how each of us works. Our mannerisms. The way that we do things, and start feeding off of each other. If I grab something and I  am working with a certain volunteer, than I know that he/she will grab the next thing, and so on. We have really great volunteers and we work really well together as a team.

Well, if you know anything about me, you know that this got me to thinking about Jesus, and His relationship with me. I love having my own personal relationship with Jesus. He knows everything about me.

Psalm 139:13-16 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹³ You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
¹⁵ You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
¹⁶ You saw me before I was born.
    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
    before a single day had passed.

 

If this is not knowing somebody, then I don't know what is. He created me, and knows everything about me.

 

Matthew 10:30-31 The Voice (VOICE)

^30-31 You, beloved, are worth so much more than a whole flock of sparrows. God knows everything about you, even the number of hairs on your head. So do not fear.

 

So as much as I want to serve my volunteer opportunity with excellence, and serve our community with compassion and love. How much more do I want to serve my Living God. Jesus came to serve, not to be served. I want to follow His example of servant hood. I want to continue to be used by The Lord. Everyway possible.

 

Hebrews 6:10 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.

 

That is what I keep telling people who ask me about this. We are here to help each other out. To lift each other up and encourage. If we are not doing this, then why are we here.

 

1 Corinthians 16:14 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁴ Let all that you do be done in love.

 

That's what I want to happen for myself. To love others, just as Jesus loves me.