ACTS OF SERVICE (Love Language 3)

SHERRY ENTERED THE WORKFORCE after her husband left her with her four years old daughter. Her computer skills were not as advanced as she would like, they still aren’t, but she is improving. Easing her transition as a single mother in the workplace is a helpful coworker
“Gaye is so nice,” sherry said, “whenever I have a problem with my computer, she’s always available to help me. She is so patient when I am slow to learn, she is the greatest! I don’t know what I can do without her”
Sherry has high positive regard for Gaye because her coworker is speaking sherry’s primary love language: act of service.
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, is best known for his theory of relatively, which he advanced in 1905 when he was twenty-six. He made many others significant contribution to science. However, in his later years, he said to have removed from has wall the portrait of two scientists, Maxwell and Newton, and replaced them with the portraits of Schweitzer and Gandhi. When he was questioned by his colleagues, he said, “It is time to remove the symbols of science and replace with them with the symbols of service.”
Apparently Einstein had come to realized that love is more powerful than science. One of the fundamental languages of love is act of service. One of the clearest pictures of the essence of the Christian faith is Jesus, its founder, washing the feet of his disciples. In a culture were people wore sandals and walk on dirt streets, it was customary for the servant of the household to wash the feet of guests has they arrive. Jesus, who had instructed his disciple to love one another, gave them an example of how to express that love when he took a basin and a towel and proceeded to wash their feet. After that simple expression of love he encouraged his disciples to follow his example
Earlier in his life Jesus had indicated that in his kingdom those who would become great would be servant. In most societies those who mare great lord it over those who are small, but Jesus said that those who are great would serve others. The apostle Paul summarized that philosophy when he said “serve one another in love.”
In the “Me Generation,” the idea of service may seem anachronistic, but the life of service to others has always been recognized as a life worthy of emulation. In every vocation, those who truly excel are those who has genuine desire to serve others. The most notable physicians view their vocation as a calling to serve the sick and diseased. Truly great political leaders see themselves as “Public Servants.” The greatest of all educators see student as individual and gain their greatest rewards from seeing student reach their potential in developing their talents and interests. Service to others is the highest pinnacle man ever scales