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Day 34 Thinking Like a Servant

My servant Caleb thinks differently

and follows me completely.

Numbers 14:24 (NCV)

Think of yourselves the way

Christ Jesus thought of himself.

Philippians. 2:5 (Msg)

Service starts in your mind.

To be a servant requires a mental shift, a change in your

attitudes. God is always more interested in whywe do something

than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

King Amaziah lost God’s favor because “he did what was right in

the sight of the Lord, yet not with a true heart.”^1 Real servants serve

God with a mindset of five attitudes.

Servants think more about others than about themselves.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility:

not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less. They

are self-forgetful. Paul said, “Forget yourselves long enough to lend a

helping hand.”^2 This is what it means to “lose your life”—

forgetting yourself in service to others. When we stop focusing on

our own needs, we become aware of the needs around us.

PURPOSE #4: You Were Shaped for Serving God 265