Someone recently asked me to contribute to a resource they're developing by writing some advice for serving. They also requested it be 150 words. So, here's what I wrote in exactly 150 words:

Serve like Jesus
Serve sacrificially: Although serving can be incredibly rewarding and fun, it can also be very taxing and costly, like it was for Jesus. Serve despite discomfort.

Serve in humility: If you serve to earn approval or to boost your own self-worth, that will be the extent of your reward. You’ll miss the amazing eternal rewards God has in store. Motives matter.

Serve continually: For Jesus, serving was a lifestyle, not a monthly project nor an annual missions trip. His life on earth was His mission. So should yours.

Serve with focus: Jesus knew to focus His time and energy. For all the people that he healed and taught, even more were left unhealed and untaught as He traveled past entire towns and communities. You can’t serve everyone, but you can serve some, and for those some, like the Samaritan woman, it may change their world forever.