Blog #2: Service

Today in church I got a great insight into why we serve. Oftentimes we think that we serve in order to help other people physically, which is true, but is not the entire reason. There is also a very spiritual side to service. We tend to recognize the two aspects of service individually, but until today I failed to connect them. We serve people to fulfill their physical needs and desires so they can be prepared for the spirit to enter their hearts. People whose physical demands are greatly lacking are not in the right mindset to feel of the Spirit. The hierarchy of needs places physical needs in a place of greater demand than the emotional and the spiritual. When we take care of physical needs we allow people to move on to add more to their lives. That addition may very well be the Spirit. By serving others we are able to enrich their lives in multiple ways, because we take care of basic needs and allow them to partake of what they once could not even consider. Once those essentials are provided, people are able to more fully complete their lives by adding the spiritual to the physical.