"It is Well" - Serve Well

Good morning, Five Minute Families. As always we pray you are investing your time and energy into your family. If you realize that you haven’t been doing so, we encourage you to start with just five minutes a day. (hence, our name). But, please don’t stop with just five minutes a day. Once you have seen all the ways that you can quickly and easily make intentional investing in your family happen, allow that to magnify. Now, let’s jump into the final week of our “It is Well” series. We have discussed how to lead well, follow well, and grow well. We are going to end with serve well. Ultimately, Jesus came to serve, not to be served. He said himself in Luke 22, “rather, the one who is the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the servant.  For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.” For some serving is so natural that they truly do not understand why anyone would even need to be reminded of serving other. However, we must point out that we placed ‘growing in Christ well’ before serving well on purpose. Just as Martha had to learn that service comes after gleaning God’s truth and sitting in His presence, servers-by-nature, must remember that very important lesson. Serving and growing in Christ go hand in hand, but servers often lose sight of that. If that is you and you aren’t sure who Martha is, please check out Luke chapter 10 verse 38 through 42. For many though, serving does not come naturally or easily. James 2:24 tells us, “You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” By works we show our faith. Sometimes that faith is new or uninformed, but by serving we can learn and grow. Again, growing and serving are two sides of the sanctification coin. So, how does a family serve well together? One of the first ways to serve as a family is to serve each other. Some seasons of life are “at home” seasons suc