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

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamouf.

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 DeMoss Walgamuth, author of The Place of Quiet Rest. For May 15th,

2024, I'm Dana Gresh. 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

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 Owenociferous, who Paul singled out as one who had ministered to him

in prison, Onusiphrus 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 Onusiphras

had a servant's heart. He practiced biblical servanthood. He was following in the steps of Jesus,

the great servant, the suffering servant. He took risks. Jesus did as did Onus Siferous to minister

to others. And he did this often. He did it in many different ways, practical ways,

and how thankful I am for the onusiferuses in my life. And I've been challenged through this

study to become that kind of person in other people's lives. Now, in just a couple of days,

we're going to wrap up the study of onusiferous, and I want to talk at the end of this series about a servant's reward, and we see that in 2 Timothy chapter 1.

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