Service is the action a person takes to help others. There are different kinds of services like Community Service and Christian Service. Community Service is helping in your community, schools, church, individuals, or organizations. Christian Services is the act of doing work for God. It could be sharing the gospel or even spreading the word of God. Service is important because it is a selfless act of giving to others. It teaches the importance in life, it can help transform not only yours but someone else’s life. Recently I had a tragic event that changed my thought on life. Someone very close to my friends and I passed away. She was a role model to me and helped me through very hard times in my life.
Anyone that was blessed to meet her knows how much joy she brought into people’s life. The outcome of this event taught me how short life is, how fast people can come and go in. It made me think on how much I have to value what I have in life. “And if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” In this message of Isaiah 58: 10 I learned that if you feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon. “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.
Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” In this message of Luke 6: 35 I learned you should love your enemies. Help them without expecting to be repaid, God is kind to people who are ungrateful and wicked. Service is a essential element in our faith because it is important to give back. My faith teaches me that God sent his only begotten son down on Earth for him to serve and not to be served. Completing my service hours taught me many things like leadership. It helped me live out my faith by doing many things like a community walk for autism. I raised money by walking to help autistic children. From this experience I learning that I could be helpful to people in many different ways.