Thursday, June 14, 2007

To serve or volunteer: not just semantics

Let me start with a thought on differences,

When it is time for the coming of Jesus.. we will know that God works in so many different ways in so many types of faith, but all pointing to the universal truth, and come the day, all will know Jesus the same way, because he lets his children learn where they will so they be nourished

its so beautiful.. and so confusing

Because human nature is to tell everyone about the good you've experienced, and we are all about defining absolutes, that the happiness we found is the right way; Instead of seeing it like a Picasso painting, it is relative and abstract, happiness is a personal gift of the Spirit to everyone.. and our uniqueness is what allows such desires to grow in different ways at different times..

So what does this mean?

Well, I think it is rather simple.
We are all on the same but different levels. We all will and do experience joy, love and happiness.
But sometimes at different degrees. One find conviction, another only moral responsibility.

When one volunteers, they are doing so aside from their main work, the y are doing so to be a responsible citizen, to do it with passion in the heart and to do it cause it is the moral thing to do.
Perpetual volunteerism does not exist, because the human desire of needs to survive and live defeats the needs of the higher desire, for a number of reasons, from ignorance to intentional blindness to relativism.

But if one serves, they are convicted, they do it not out of pity or responsibility, but instead at a higher level, they do it to be accountable to the cause. It is not done to the side, but done at the foreground with the passion and conviction int he heart. Perpetual is achievable because the nourishment is at a higher calling, it is God's own nourishment, and the servant becomes an instrument for God, seeking no self needs, but that only to serve our Lord and His people.