Serving in the Sweet Spot - "iGeneration"

We live today with some incredible technology. Apple products include the iPhone, iPad, iMac, iTouch and iCloud, and coming on the Horizon is the iWatch. It’s interesting that it’s a fit with the way most people in the world view their individual life. I remember many years ago when Burger King changed their philosophy about the way they make their hamburgers. Their new slogan and jingle was, “Have it your Way.” That may work for businesses wanting to please their customers, but it goes against the grain of a God in heaven who created us for His Purpose. Jesus says, “If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for Me, you will find true life.” (Matthew 16:25) The most fulfilled people on the planet are those who have given up having it their own way.

Those who are Living in the “Sweet Spot” are those who have lived by, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:3)

Each of us will find that we’ll either live life with a sense of: Entitlement or Responsibility

Can you imagine standing behind Billy Graham at the Judgment Seat of Christ and hearing, “Next”? And then you say, “But you see Lord, I couldn’t serve because I had to watch the Jaguars. I had to work 60 hours a week to pay for my car, home, and jet skis and other toys and I had to take my kids to dance, t-ball, and basketball”. And on and on you go. What will the Lord say to you and me on that day? Jesus gives us some insight of the man who had three servants in (Matthew 25:14-30) NLT. One was given five bags of silver, another, two bags of silver and the other one bag of silver. Notice that each of them were only responsible for what they were given. Yes, the first produced five more bags of silver; the other multiplied two more bags of silver. But Jesus stresses the point; that ONE did nothing with his one bag of silver. He buried it in the ground and then blamed his owner saying, that “I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back.”

That was not a pretty day for that servant, ²⁸ “Then he ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver. ²⁹ To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. ³⁰ Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The problem was that the last servant NEVER assumed RESPONSILBIITY for what he had been given. Ask yourself today, “Have I accepted Responsibility for what the Lord has given me IN SERVING?”