Unusual talent that I have is the ability to look at a chip dip container and take a bag of chips and without pencil and paper, without AI or math, gauge how to eat the proper amount of dip on each chip so that when the bag is empty the container is empty.
This is important because if you have ever purchased a thing of chip dip and there is dip left over after the bad is empty, most often it sits in the fridge until it becomes a science experiment.
Back in college there was a fellow dorm resident that was just a little off socially. He came to talk to me one night and I was in the process of eating a bag of chips and dip. A spirit of serving over came me so I offered some to him. He said, “sure thing,” and then proceeded to dip his chip and use a massive amount of my dip.
In my head I was like WHOA! He was throwing off everything, now I am going to have left over chips because the dip is going to run out. He continued to sit there and eat the dip for the next 20 minutes and then back to his room.
Recently, I was considering this true and insignificant moment in life in relation to serving. Serving is not always easy. Most often, serving is inconvenient.
We could spend hours discussing the examples of Jesus in serving. They were inconvenient but let us consider one passage:
“As I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done for you.” John 13:14-15
Jesus is literal hours away from the cross yet he is serving. Of all the people that have ever lived in the all of the world, Jesus was the last person anyone would expect to wash feet here. This is one golden example of the inconvenience of serving.
I would like to hang out in this passage for a while but until our next time together, be looking out for opportunities to serve.
Until then S.D.G.