Today I want to ask a simple question to my fellow Greek organizational members. Is your community service God's service ? You may think this is a strange question but it really isn't. Take time think about this the next time you prepare to put on your Greek letters and walk out the door to promote your organization.
We all should be using our organizations as another way to be about the business of Jesus. The only three letters that really make a difference in our lives and the lives of others, is G.O.D. those three letters represent the ultimate in love. The next time we put on our shirts, jackets, hats , visors etc...we need to take a moment and pray. Ask God to allow us to walk out into the community and show his light in us first and foremost. A Greek Letter Organization should be just another vehicle we as men and women of God can use to bless other people less fortunate than us or those fortunate as we are.
We always say we want to make a difference in the community and we want them to know that our organizations are contributing to this wonderful cause. We need to be careful that we are not promoting the organization more than God's plan. We need to be promoting the love of Jesus in front of the people we serve. The should see him before they see the Greek letters on our shirts. We must ask God to humble us in our organizations. Let us go out first for him and then as members of an organization.
It should not be said so much that an organization did something but that God 'used that organization' to be a blessing and make a difference. We are God's Property first before we are Sorors and Frats, at least we are suppose to be. Some of us will work endlessly for our Greek letter organizations way into the night but will not go to a prayer shut in for eight or twelve hours. We will get up early and come out in large numbers to show our support and sisterhood in the community but will not join our prayer group at church before 10:00am on a Saturday to pray together for the very communities we say we care for.
Edify and promote the work of Jesus in the community , not the work of the Greek letter organization. The spirit of Sisterly Love is wonderful , but the Holy Spirit of God is even greater. While we are walking around on the streets of different communities let us leave a mark of the love of Jesus Christ for mankind and not the mark of an organization being present. They need to see Jesus in all we do. Let us use the organization to band together and promote the work of Jesus in the lives of the people . I would love that someone knew first and foremost that I was a woman of God before the knew I was a member of a Greek letter organization.
There are times when the very women we sit next to in church on Sunday will take on a spirit of vanity and pride on Monday. A vain and prideful spirit is not of God and if it is not of him it is of the enemy . Sickness, poverty, homelessness and death, they do not care about what Greek letter organization you are a member of . They have no respect of person. When it comes , it comes and it can turn your whole life around.
The very person you stuck your nose up in the air at will be the one that holds the blessing in their hands and you may miss it because of your pride or you may be blessed to be humbled and have your eyes open and see that you are no better than anyone else because of the color of your organization or the history. God is first among all men and upon the earth. We must be mindful of this at all times. Do not let anything that does not show the love of Jesus at all times come into your life. It is easy to make something an Idol and that is not of God.
Let us not be consumed by three letters that have no power !! We are all filthy rags in the sight of God....but for the blood of Jesus that covers a multitude of sins we would have been destroyed a long time ago. Let us give honor to God when we enter into his house at all times. Let the people see Jesus when we enter his gates NOT our Greek letter jackets and our bible book cover !! Why would you want your three letters to be seen on the Word of God before the Word of God is seen. Jesus is the superstar in that book no one else and nothing else ! The only three letters people need to think about when they look at your bible should be G.O.D.
Let them see us come together as sisters and praise the Lord together. I mean really praise him not sit on the pew and look stiff and cute with loud make up and big hats and our Greek letter stoles on ! Let them see us hold hands and run around the church together, let them see us at the altar together for prayer, let them see us dance in the aisle right out of our shoes, let them hear us give a shout of praise to the Lord instead of some sorority or fraternity call ! Take off your hats and your jackets and give God the praise !! Praise him for life , Praise him for the Holy Spirit , Praise him for his Grace and Mercy towards us all.
None of us are worthy . Just remember that the next time you want to speak down about another Greek letter organizational member and then go down in prayer. Regardless of why you spoke in an unkind and disrespectful manner you still did it and the words are heard by God. He sees your heart and mind. He knows the truth about you and your intentions. If your intentions are to promote your organization first and not God, he knows that and your actions in the community to me are vain. Remember to pray before you gather and go out. Use the Greek organization as a weapon against all the damage the enemy is trying to do in the lives of God's people.
Go forth together in the Spirit of Jesus first and I believe he will bless our efforts in the community to make a difference in the lives of men, women and children. Seek the Kingdom of God first and all his righteousness and the promotions and good words about your organization will come later. Let the intention be to do a work for the Lord not to get your organization in the newspaper. Put God first and he will bless our work . THANK GOD for his Word. Amen.
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