John 13:1-20 | What am I going to do about it?

One of the biggest hinderances to our ability to serve is our inability to see opportunity to serve. Most people are going through the motions of life and fail to have the intentionality to care for one another. Jesus could have easily gone about this time passively and like any other feast He has been apart of. But He didn't. He sought for and even made opportunity to serve.

Be honest and ask yourself, do you want to find opportunity to serve those around you? I think that many of us would answer that with a no. It is viewed as an inconvenience. We have taken it upon ourselves to make sure others know how it puts us out when we do serve them. We don't want to be bothered. We don't want to be burdened.

2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
-Galatians 6:2

We are instructed to bear one another's burdens. It is the desire of the Lord that we look out for and care for one another. I mean this is the pinnacle of "love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus elevates that command further among the believers as He says, "As I have loved you so also you ought to love one another." And John reinforces in 1 John that His commandments are not burdensome. This is essentially what walking in love looks like. So if we do not desire to come alongside one another and look to serve in these ways, I fear it is simply that we have not truly tasted and seen the love of God. For,

19 We love Him because He first loved us.
-1 John 4:19

So what will I do about it? I will look for and even create opportunities to serve those around me. I will look unto the love of God to be filled that I may work out of the overflow.

What application are you implementing?