Our Purpose Driven Life(English Version)

CHAPTER 33 February 28, 2004 6:18pm - 7:26pm

     We are doing service for Lord God our Father and our Creator, when we do service to our fellow. To tell you the truth i am still not sure to my mission if i will be a teacher, because yesterday i told the priest about it, but it seems that he doesn't understand me, and he said that i should pray to God and ask Him what He really wants me to do, but that's right to do and i have a strong feeling that it is teacher.

      And what we thought to do is to be a leader, but if you will become leader you will be everyone's slave for you will serve them all. And if you are on a high position that's what you are doing now, but i hope not all the leader are like that. When i was working i remember what they taught us it's a training seminar "a good leader is a good follower".

     It's wrong that they taught being a priest and a lot of position about the church is the true way of doing service to our fellow and that's the only one that you can call service. And many book topics are more on being a leader and being a servant are seldom. And Jesus Christ said also that He is serving you. It's possible to your life that serving your fellow will not be your true mission.

     How will you know if your have a "serving heart". Serving others is not choosing who will they help, that if they need help, they will help even if he has a problem going on, even if he is angry, tired or lonely. And he will not complain when someone is asking for his help. Sometimes simple ways of helping others will be your opportunity for you to know if you are truly gonna serve others. For example someone will be falling on the cliff, you cannot say i do not feel any pity, or i cannot help her. It's should be on the spot whatever you are doing, you will help your fellow wholeheartedly. And you are willing to help if you saw a "trash or stack chair". Or your fellow doesn't want to help them because they are sick. And the exact example is st. therese. And Jesus Christ help those who have leprosy, on His time that no one wants to be near to them.

     Sometimes on your place, if no one on your place have to do the mission, God will call you to do His desire for you to help those who are in need. And those who serve does not have control on his time and he will not complain if his plan will change or will not happen because God needs him for his desire.

     And those people who are true to there service does not like fame for they don't want to be recognize for this will just give hindrance for there mission. And those are true to there service are not asking for fame because they understand (prominence & significance).

     When the ship where paul is riding was broken all of them are feeling cold, even if paul and everyone is tired and cold, he gather woods and make a fire (bon fire) so that their cold body will feel warm. Paul is a good person for he thinks first for his fellow before himself. And many people from the start are serving but in the end they will become artist. They where being effulgence by fame and be admire. You will not see on spotlight or on famous people those who truly serve, mostly you can find them from ordinary people, and will not like to be famous even if no one can understand them. What's important is they know that what they are doing is right. What shapes us is the first mission, and the second is, if they need you on that time you will help them.

     It's fine that people don't recognize your works, God is there who knows everything on you, from where you live. And "when Jesus Christ will return and go down from heaven there you will be recognize". Just do everything you've got even if on a simple way, and when your fellow needs you, don't do it tomorrow if you know you can act now. And those who truly serve is always ready to help anytime and they're okay with it, because God is just making them more sturdy and they have always time to help wholeheartedly.

i am always prepare to help others anytime because it's part of service to God.

     Many are famous now and less are those who serve, that's why we should do it initiatively and wholeheartedly.