Josiah Road

Unworthy Servants

posted by Jonathan Frank 12Mar

It’s funny how sometimes we remember just completely random things. One of those things for me was the second day of Vacation Bible School at Long Hollow in 2007. The theme was “The Sports Galaxy,” and I was helping with the drama.

I LOVE doing the VBS dramas, but the past two years I have done it, it has also been one of the most stressful weeks of the year because often times we ended up memorizing our lines the day of the event. I remember on the second day in particular, we were all really stressed and felt that we just weren’t ready to go out there. Finally it was almost time for us to go on and the ladies of the Praise Team asked us if we wanted to join them in prayer. They did that thing where somebody opens, somebody closes and whoever can just go in the middle as they feel led. And I remember Sarah, who was also doing the drama, said thank you for the privilege it is to serve.

Well the praise team was comprised entirely of women, as was the drama team – minus me – and of course they all just started boo-hooing. But I don’t know that I entirely understood what that meant until this weekend.

This weekend I had the opportunity to come home and lead a group of 8th graders at “Quest” at church (also called ‘Disciple Now, ‘D-Now’, etc.- whatever …). It was awesome!

After the church service Sunday a lunch was provided for the leaders and co-leaders and Travis, our high school pastor, was telling us how appreciative the church was for our coming and ’serving’ this weekend. And I was thinking to myself that this gratitude seemed undeserved because I was so thankful for the opportunity to come and do it. I mean I loved everything about the weekend. I too, was challenged by the message given, and it was such a blessing to me that I just felt bad about being praised for having done it. I mean yes, it was somewhat of a commitment of time, and yeah we completed a service project —in our case helping a very sweet family move, and there were a number of responsibilities I had, but I benefited from having come to Quest. And I was actually a little saddened when it was over.

And then I remembered those words, and today I pray them too – THANK YOU, God, for the privilege it is to serve! I don’t deserve the reward that it brings, but I am grateful for it.