While catching up on Katie Davis's recent blogs (for more information, check out kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com or amazima.org/), her most recent one really caught my attention. She started the post with these words, "Around here, we live bent low." I immediately thought she was referring to the amount of prayer she and her ministry do, but at the end of the post, I stood corrected.
Katie was instead referring to the servant heart that Christians are called to have. As Christians, we must bend low for others. She used several examples that she had witnessed in her own life: bending low to paint some girls' toenails, bending low to offer a sucker to a homeless man, and bending low to help her daughters and students with math problems. Christians must bend low and get their hands dirty helping others. They must be willing to experience exhaustion and fatigue at the service of others. Sound tiring? Katie Davis had yet another reminder...
"People say, “Don’t you get tired?” and yes, I do. But I’m face to face with Jesus in the dirt, and the more I bend the harder and better and fuller this life gets. And sure, we are tired, but oh we are happy. Because bent down low is where we find fullness of Joy."
What struck me the most from her quote is that she said life gets "harder" the more she bends, but it also gets "better and fuller." How can something so hard be so much more fulfilling? Because bending low is serving God. And serving God is hard work. But ultimately, that hard work will be rewarded with the inheritance of all of God's riches in Heaven. Those riches will add up to quite a bit more than forty hours a week at minimum wage ever will... eternity in Heaven.
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