The true service can be tested by these things, and the true servant can be tested by the measure of those virtues of Christ: utterly selfless, self-empty.
ot even the selfless silence as you intercede for an overburdened loved one, but a silence springing from absolute certainty that God knows what He’s doing. “My soul wait”.. quietly; patiently; trustingly.
And the faith of these dear saints was manifested, in the ongoing work they performed, to the glory of God, together with their selfless, labour of Christian love, in ministering to their brothers and sisters in Christ.
He set aside His heavenly garments of glory and dressed Himself in lowly humanity - in selfless humility and gracious condescension - and He did it for our sake.
Their sincere, selfless love came from God - for God is love and genuine love comes from Him alone and bears witness to their great salvation in Christ, for everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God - everyone who is walking in spirit and truth is knit together in Christian love.
to adopt an attitude of gracious consideration towards one another - to be like-minded, selfless and sacrificial and to demonstrate brotherly affection towards each other.
But it was not only the Lord Jesus Whom Paul used to demonstrate the gracious selflessness and sacrificial attitude that believers are exhorted to display towards their fellow man..
It is during this post-cross period that we who are saved by grace through faith in Christ are commanded to fulfil this sublime instruction to 'love', in the same selfless way that Christ loved us.
