Hey kids,

Wow, in such a short time, we have hit day 29. Relationship principle 5 takes us back to something we talked about at the start of the semester.

Serving? What does that take? We held in our session on Servanthood that pride has to go and humility has to come. Yesterday at BBT, couple of us were talking about driving to far places.
All the reasons that made us irritated or unhappy or relunctant, it was really very self. It was all about ourselve. Be it petrol money, tiredness etc, it focused on ourselves. Granted they are all legitimate reasons and i have struggled with serving in this area cheerfully (especially in my first year haha) but Big Mike said something that really struck me, that when we serve cheerfully God will take care of our needs. The focus here is not take care of my needs, but God. I mean, humility would be, Let God take care of it, he is the big one. Humility would be, my needs are not that important.
This chapter really enforced alot of things that we already know, but probably haven put into concrete practice yet.
A learned friend spoke to me this week on faith. that its really not about just knowing the principle or the person, but its letting that knowledge govern us, to let that knowledge control our actions.

So what is that knowledge that we need to know? And how is it going to govern our actions?
Well personally, Ive known, and i know, Jesus is my solution to every need out there, be it a struggle with sin, or financial or emotional needs, insurmountable problems, he is my solution. And how do i Let it govern my thoughts, my actions?
I live through Christ. CHrist that lives in me transforms me as i make choices in my will to follow him, to let him in.

Yes granted that is the hard part, where we humble ourselves to say, hey its not about me anymore, its all about Jesus.
But friends, as you read today's reading, mediate on this, what areas of our life are filled with pride (i.e what areas am i not letting Jesus take control), and is it showing through our actions (serving, which as we spoke about before helps us build humility)
We have to humble ourselves, that is when our problems will not be so Big, our needs not so big. Why? Cause the focus is on God.

Let's humble ourselves this week. Lets show it through our actions. Let serve one another and our community :)

In Christ's service,
Jems