Service

One of the reasons we were brought into this world is to serve humanity. Why? God, who created us, formed & shaped us for relational influence. Our spiritual & physical gifts, abilities, personalities, talents & experience are for the purpose of serving God & humanity.

The Lord Jesus Christ took upon himself, the service of humanity;
He served even till His death. He endured in the course of His service; He endured the cross & despised the shame.

Likewise we, as our Lord has shown to us, He expects us to do the same.

· Service is your ladder to greatness. The more you serve, the more you realize your strength. You know when you're asked to do something; you might not know you can until you put it to action. At that time, you're rendering a service to the person who told you to do that thing. In order words, that person is helping you to realize the area of your strength.

· Another thing is that service is the ladder you need to climb your destiny; your future becomes inaccessible until you commit yourself to 'genuine' service and that's very important. Most people serve, quite alright but it's not genuine which is not right. Any service you want to render to anyone should be genuine and must come from your heart.

· Your destiny can only be fulfilled with zeal to serve humanity.

· Even, before you can become a leader, you must serve and if you can't serve, you can't be a leader because even as a leader, you must be ready to serve your followers. The tragedy there is that if you eventually become a leader somewhere, you will not know the effectiveness and what it takes to be a leader because you will think you're being punished which is not but because you lack the capability of being a leader.

· Service comes before Leadership

· Life is full of opportunities and it is your best service that will link you to them.

There is the story of two men who were working as security guards in a supermarket. One of them was faithful and committed to the job while the other was not.

One day, a customer of the supermarket came to buy a few things and while leaving, he left his suitcase on the table of the store attendant. The unfaithful guard saw it but did as if he didn't. The customer was about to enter his car when the honest guard called him to wait & gave him the suitcase. The man was very happy and was grateful to the security guard. As a sign of gratitude, the customer gave him is business card that he should call him before dusk. The security guard did as he was told and on the phone, he was given an appointment to resume work at the man's company the following day with official benefits; official car, house, driver, etc.

Isn't it interesting? Service to humanity made a man official personnel in a company from the post of a Security guard.

I conclude with these quote; "Genuine service to humanity grants and makes you an invaluable value" – Olusegun O. Pelemo.