A Servant’s Heart.

The College-age group that I am a part of at my local church put on this great night of worship and a message downtown at a coffee shop on Sunday evening.  It was so awesome to be in the community and “do church” outside of the four walls most people think of when they think “church”.

We sang a lot of worship songs that talked about God and His love for us.  I noticed that in most of these songs, to help us understand how great, big, mighty, and powerful His love for us is, the writer of the song would refer to a storm.  Lyrics like: “Your love is crashing over me, surging like a raging sea, immerse me in the wonder of Your love. A downpour of unending grace, consuming all my reckless ways, my sins submerged,
Your love has saved my soul”  And  “Like the wind come have Your way”.

Per normal spring time in Billings, we had a thunderstorm roll in right before our event got started.  I personally thought it was pretty awesome to be in a room full of people singing “like the wind come have Your way” as the rain was pouring down.  We can’t silence the wind.  We can’t stop the rain. We can’t control a raging sea.  Just like in our lives, we can’t plan how every minute is going to go, because our God is bigger and His plan for us is wilder than we will ever wrap our heads around.  COME HAVE YOUR WAY, GOD! That’s all He wants us to say. That’s all He wants us to do is let His way be done in us.

My most favorite part of the whole night was when we were packing up all of the sound equipment.  I watched all of the great male leaders from our college group run out in the rain over and over to get all of the equipment loaded in cars.  They were soaked to the bone.  I saw Jake, the worship pastor, take his jacket off and put it over some of the sound equipment so it wouldn’t get wet.  I’m sure he didn’t think twice about himself getting wet but knew that the sound equipment took first priority.  In that moment all I could think to myself was “what a servants heart”.  A truly selfless thing to do. I hope that reading this is a good reminder of what needs to take first priority in your life.  To be more selfless and always remember to have a servant’s heart even when the wind is blowing and the sea is raging.

Well done, good and faithful servant.