I think it’s our nature to be selfish don’t you? Growing up as an only child has afforded me some strong character traits that have helped shaped me and make me who I am today. Traits like, independence, determination, leadership, responsibility and dependability. But I think it has made me more selfish as well. I tend to think I’ve “earned” this or I “deserve” that. I was at the store the other day looking at some “techie” things and I couldn’t help but notice how “shiny and new” everything looked, even the washers and dryers. I thought to myself, it’s no wonder we get distracted from serving and sacrificing for others. I can tell you first hand most of the people I’ve run across this past year are not “shiny and new”, they are broken and tired, yet I’ve met God there more than I’ll ever meet him in the store. Over the past year and a half of Jesus Was Homeless I have started to learn the importance of serving my fellow man. Unfortunately, it still comes back to my selfishness. Now it’s the selfishness of not wanting to be as selfish. I have begun to learn that by serving others it helps to take the focus off of me, my problems, the things I can’t have or do and replaces that emptiness with joy and fullness for others. Make no mistake I still have a long way to go but the “renewing of my mind” and the “transformation of my heart” I believe have been done through God’s gift of serving. I think one of the best things about Jesus Was Homeless is that it’s open to anyone. We won’t turn you away. We don’t care what church you’re from, if any. We don’t care what you do for a living. We’re just a group of people wanting to get outside of ourselves. For the past few weeks we’ve had some incredibly selfless teenagers come and serve. Now after raising 4 teenagers I didn’t know it was possible to use those 2 words in the same sentence. Just think about the teenage world they live in. Almost always it’s full of themselves, their friends and anything else they could be doing other than something productive, yet this group of kids comes each week and hangs out with, I can’t speak for myself, nerdy adults, passing out food. It really made me think this past week as Easter went by that if these kids sacrifice their time to serve their fellow man, just how HUGE it was for Jesus to sacrifice himself for ALL of us. As I thought about that I have to tell you how glad I am that I haven’t been given what I’ve earned or deserved. To experience a full “renewing of your mind and a transformation of your heart” I believe you MUST serve and sacrifice for your fellow man. If you would like to check us out we make meals every Thursday morning from 9-11 am and deliver over 330 meals every Thursday night from 5:30-8:30 pm. “Come and See”.

40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’ – Matthew 25:40 (NLT)