Are you aware of how your life has been shaped to make a difference in this world? Do you know your spiritual gifts? What is your place of passion? Are you able to claim your abilities and talents? How would you describe how God uses your personality to impact the people around you? What experiences have influenced the way you impact the world in which you live?

Serving like Jesus….we make ourselves available, we empty ourselves in order to be filled with God’s spirit and we humble ourselves which in the words of C.S. Lewis, is not thinking less of ourselves, but thinking of ourselves less.

This is the icon titled, “Extreme Humility.” In the words of Robert Weiser,
“The specific lesson of Extreme Humility is thus clarified: the humility we seek cannot be found by any effort of our own but can only be achieved by allowing the humility of Christ to take up residence in our hearts. Our attempts at conquering pride are poor, pathetic things, doomed to failure at the outset, an instance of that “vanity of vanities” spoken of by Ecclesiastes. The only certain road to humility lies along the path of the cross and tomb of Christ Himself.”

The Gospel Lesson for this past Sunday poses an important question for us when we talk about serving.