An essential aspect of love is self-gift. God's nature is love, and God's self-gift to us is Jesus. Jesus too offered himself for us. We offer service as a self-gift and rooted in love. Service primarily look for the good of the other. In offering the self-gift for the sake of the good of the other, we ourselves are transformed. For every act of service adds certain virtue to us and that adds beauty to our person. There the beauty of God shines. The mode of service as an offering and as a gift is very much aligned with our nature. Service adds humility, discipline, goodwill, purposefulness, and thus our nature is touched deeply as we engage in service whole heartedly.
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