Sue led our meeting today and was also the speaker! Thank you Sue for blessing us with your gifts – we so appreciate you!

Sue took Philippians 2 v 1-11 as her passage alongside the Graham Kendrick song, The Servant King, as we thought about the humility and servanthood of our Lord.

We were reminded that The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Graham’s song says, He came from heaven, a helpless babe, His glory veiled, not to be served but to serve and to give His life that we might live! God chose it to be this way. It’s hard to take it all in isn’t it! But it is by His example that we learn how to sacrificially serve others.

Verse 3 and 4 says that we should “do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests , but also to the interests of others.”

Sue encouraged us to use the gifts God has given us.  Sometimes we may have a tendency to do too much or even too little! Is there joy when we serve or do we do it grudgingly? Are we perhaps doing things we shouldn’t, like being square pegs in round holes? Whatever our circumstances we need to be faithful in using what God has given us to humbly serve others.

As Graham’s song says in the last verse, “So let us learn how to serve, and in our lives enthrone Him; each other’s needs to prefer, for it is Christ we’re serving.”  Amen!

We closed our service by singing this song as a prayer.