REAL (37) - Who a leader is: a servant of servants." By Jeremie Nitirandekura &Josimar Salum

"Who a leader is: a servant of servants." By Jeremie Nitirandekura & Josimar Salum (JSalum)

You will be totally free when you become a full servant. You will never become a true leader until you have learned to serve others.

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” Philippians 2:3-7

The word (hum)ility from Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”).

To be humble can mean to be simply who you are: human. There is nothing in me or in you that makes us different or to be considered highly above one another. Even God Himself became a man! 

Humble and humility comes from the same root of the word (hum)an. Don't elevate yourself, be just humble. On the wither hand, don't consider yourself less than anybody no matter who they are or where they came from.

Jesus said once: “He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.” Luke 16:15

 I hope I am spelling his name rightly...  My king Jeremie Nitirandekura, a volunteer of Burundi English clubs shared with me today these thoughts:

"People don´t understand how to be a servant of servants. Yesterday during english club I asked my pupil one by one , "who do you want to become after your studies?"

Every one told me: "I want to become a boss." None of them said: I want become a servant."

I tried to make them understand a value of being a servant. After i asked them , "who wants to be a leader? "They cried out: Oooh! 

They explained to me what a leader is. According to them a leader is a high person, someone honorable."

It took me a long time in order to make them understand  who a true leader is. 

After my explanations, fortunately each of them said: I am eager to be a true leader.

"Yes, yes", I told them, "you have to think why you need to be a leader. It will asked of  you to ignore the benefits to be a servant of servants."

I believe that through my generation,  BURUNDI WILL BE A GOOD COUNTRY. Then everyone will be able to serve owing to the love."

Wow! Wow! Great thoughts! It is encouraging to read them! I think there is a Love Revolution going on in Burundi!

I will finish with these words from The Message by brother Eugene Peterson:

“In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we’re talking about is Christ’s body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn’t amount to much, would we? 

So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.

If you preach, just preach God’s Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don’t take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don’t get bossy; if you’re put in charge, don’t manipulate; if you’re called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don’t let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face.

Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help the needy; be inventive in hospitality.” Romans 12:6-13 MSG