Greetings in Christ Jesus, Fellow Soldiers.
I have shared the pleasure of volunteering for Operation Outreach with many of you. There is something invigorating about joining with men and women of all ranks and branches of service to do a little something to improve the life of impoverished citizens of this country.
But let us not grow satisfied with the work we are doing, nor believers in our own righteousness. We serve because we were served. It is not an expression of our piety, but of our gratitude.
The true outreach operation was launched by Jesus, who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant, made in human likeness, and became obedient to death, even death on a cross (paraphrase from Phil. 2). He did all this to bring glory to the Father and secure a spiritual impoverished citizenry to Himself.
When we boast, we boast in His righteousness. When we serve, we serve in view of the mercy shown to us in His perfect life and atoning death. And when we unify for a good cause, we are but getting a foretaste of the life unified with all tribes, tongues, peoples, and languages when we gather around the throne of the Lamb who was slain for our sin.
Every blessing but shows the past, present, and future grace afforded those who are found in Christ.
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