As you tackle your to-do list today, do you remember why you're doing these things?

Here's Nancy De Maswalgamuth.

It's easy when you're a servant to lose perspective.

To get caught up in the what you're doing, the tasks, and forget why you're doing

it, and forget who you're doing it for.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy Damas Walgemuth, author of The Place of Quiet Rest.

For May 15th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. You're probably catching this program

you're probably catching this program while you're occupied doing some task or rushing from one place to another.

You're busy doing good things, but there are some dangers that come along with being busy doing good things.

Nancy shares them as part of a series called along with being busy doing good things.

Nancy shares them as part of a series called Developing

a Servant's Heart.

We spent the last couple days looking at a little known character

in the New Testament who packs a wallop.

He has a lot to say for our lives and I found myself so challenged by the life of

Oenociferous who Paul singled out as one who administered to him in prison,

Ona Sifers who would come all the way hundreds of miles over land and sea,

from Ephesus to minister to Paul in his imprisonment in Rome.

And Paul said he often refreshed me.

We don't know the details of how he did that but we know that Onus Zifers had a servant's heart.

He practiced biblical servanthood.

He was following in the steps of Jesus the great servant, the suffering servant.

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