Here's author and speaker, Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's so easy to look around, and sometimes we think God's asking us to do more than he asks others to do.

And we start to compare, and we say, yeah, let's somebody else work here now.

It's time for somebody else to chip, and I've done enough, I've done my part.

Why do I have to keep serving?

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demoss for Tuesday, June 2nd.

It's a lot easier to be a servant at 9 in the morning than it is to be a servant at four in the afternoon.

After spending all day with active toddlers or a parent who's in the hospital or a pile of

paperwork, acting out of a servant's heart can get old. How do you continue to serve at that point?

Here's Nancy to give us some insight, continuing in the series, serving like the Savior.

Well, we're talking in a series about what I think is one of the most important and most overlooked and least common qualities in the Christian life and in relationships in general. And that's this

whole issue of having a servant's heart. Being a servant, practicing biblical servanthood.

So we want to examine what servanthood looks like, what a servant's heart looks like, how we get one,

and how we know if we have one. We said in the last session that there are two Greek

words in the New Testament that are translated servant in our English Bibles. We looked at the

first of those two words, and I want to continue looking at that one today, and then in the next

session we'll pick up on the second word. The first word was the word doulas, D-O-U-L-O-S. It's the word that in some of your

Bibles is translated, bond servant. It's a relationship of submission and subjection that a man has

to his master. It's a permanent lifetime arrangement. It's a voluntary arrangement. This man we saw back in Exodus

chapter 21. He was free to go, but he said, I love my master. I want to stay with my master.

I'm going to let you pierce a hole in my ear as a symbol, a sign that I belong to you, and I want

to serve you for the rest of my life. And I believe God gave us that picture in the Old Testament to help us know what it was like to be a servant of Jesus Christ, which is our highest calling in life.

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