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In many of our public schools students are being encouraged to participate in community service. The desire of the local school boards of education is to build into the student a sense of “helping others” rather than being so self-centered.

There are many areas of community service available for the students to participate in. They can serve in retirement homes, help “meals on wheels,” help rehabilitation patients, or perhaps paint over graffiti, to name a few.

As born again ones we are not self-centered, but God centered. The most helpful community service we can provide is to share the truth of God’s Word. We have so much to offer our communities: we know the way to living a fulfilling life now and for all eternity; we can help people get healed; we can provide the resources to help them deal with all the evils of our world; we can help them live the more abundant life.

For many of us God has given us a cause to really help our communities. The Father’s desire above all things is that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (I Timothy 2:4). Our Heavenly Father has provided us His love to motivate our life-style: “…the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” (Romans 5:5). Unlike so many without God, we have the capacity to really love people. God has chosen us to be lights in this world. “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life…” (Philippians 2:15 & 16).

Embracing the Father’s desire will open our lives to genuine service to our community.

We are the ones to really help people be reconciled back to God. God has given us the ministry of reconciliation and the word of reconciliation to do the job. (II Corinthians 5:18 & 19). It is not about us, but about the Father working in us to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).

II Corinthians 4:5-7:
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

- Bob Lindfelt

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