Overcoming Caretaker Confusion In Order To Fulfill the Great Commission
In our first blog post in the It’s YOUR Serve: Ten Barriers that Block Christians from Serving series we time-traveled back to our families of origin to better understand where our current attitudes, values, and beliefs about serving came from.
Today, in Part 2 of our ten-part series we explore our role as caregivers.
Caregiver Confusion
Is it my job or my place to assume a caretaker role?
It’s a question we may have all asked ourselves at one time.
Myself included.
For whatever reason, we fail to fully understand our roles as carers of God’s earth, people, and all creation.
Cherishing Our Roles As Caregivers
Our duty to serve both God and man is emphasized throughout scripture.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Genesis 2:15
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
I Peter 4:10
“We were saved to serve,” writes Ron Bartanen in Perspective: Saved to Serve. He continues, “We who, by the grace of God, are saved in Christ, were saved not just that we might go to heaven, but that also we might work the works of God. A believer’s life should be of use to God and man.”
Jesus said, “I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.”
John 9:4
As Christians, we are to be the hands and feet of Christ, emulating his efforts during our time here on earth.
Keeping God’s Commandments
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must loe one another.
John 13:34
One way we demonstrate our love for one another is by helping to carry one another’s burdens.
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
Furthermore, turning a blind eye to the suffering of our brethren is more than just neglectful, it is sinful.
“God said that neglecting the poor was a sin. Financially secure families were responsible to help and house those in need….God does not expect you to eliminate poverty, nor does he expect you, to neglect your family while providing for others. He does, however, expect that when you see an individual in need, you will reach out with whatever help you can offer, including hospitality.”
Leviticus 25:35-37, Chronological Life Application Study Bible, NLT Version
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Romans 12:13
Coming Up
Join us for our next blog post in the It’s YOUR Serve series where we talk about helping one another weather each other’s storms.
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