Saved to Serve

By Richard

In Mark 1: 29-31 we read that Simon’s (Peter’s) mother-in-law was sick with a fever. So Jesus takes her by the hand and raises her up from the bed, fully healed. Mark records that, “No sooner had the fever left than she was up fixing dinner for them.” (Mark 1:31, the Message). I am sure that Mark’s aim is to let us know that she was completely healed. But, I think the line also reminds a western church, waterlogged with consumerism that we saved to serve. We are saved by Christ to become his hands and feet and ears and eyes in the world. It is through his followers and their service that Christ and the world meet. So let us rise up and serve Christ today.