STAY FIT: Strengthening Your Connection To JesusSample

I sometimes wonder if the people who are rewarded most in heaven will be the ones who were least known on earth. In all of us there is a pull to be known and celebrated. I can remember as early as five years old singing in nursing homes for my grandmother’s friends. Everyone clapped after the songs. It felt good. 

From first to twelfth grade, the soccer field proved to be another stage where I could be celebrated and cheered—the more goals I scored, the better I felt about myself. 

At the age of fifteen, when I took up guitar and singing, it provided the same opportunity for praise. Only then the stage became more visible to many more people. 

In my 30s, the drive to be known led to a struggle with comparing myself with other worship leaders and songwriters. The problem, though, was that everything I was reading in Scripture was pointing in a different direction. In fact, the Savior I was following said things like: the least would be greatest; those who pray to be seen or heard have their reward now; man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. 

All of these Scriptures describe a servant. What if instead of the small stage that many of us clamor to get on to have our moments in the sun, there is a much grander stage that involves every moment we live, everyone we come in contact with, every place we take Jesus. Wow! That’s ridiculously freeing.

As believers, we are most alive when we serve, because it’s Christ serving through us. And when he’s doing it, the impact is HUGE. Know today that God sees you where you are and that there is no higher position ever to be attained than that of servant. If he chooses to make you well known in this lifetime, it’s for the sole purpose of pointing others to him. 

I do still wonder if the most known in eternity will have been the least known on earth. We will find out one day. Until then, keep serving and know that God loves you and sees you. Be faithful. The example for us all is our Servant King!  

Todd Fields
North Point Ministries