Serving in Obedience

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is not activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Shoel where you are going." Ecclesiastes 9:10

Serving is one of the greatest things we can do for the Lord. I think sometimes it is hard to serve and never really see the fruits of our service. Yet the Lord is not calling us to serve Him so that we can see results for ourselves. Those results are up to Him and if we follow Him He will be able to use us to reach others. And the results may never be known in our lifetime. I like what the above verse says, "Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might". No matter where we serve within the Body we are called to serve with all our might. We are called to do our best. And to do our best for the Lord and those He is trying to reach though us.

He calls us to serve Him in obedience. I like what my devotional thought for the day had to say about obedience:

"Nothing pleases Him so well as our obedience. It is told of a great philosopher that a friend called one day to see him, and was entertained by the philosopher's little daughter until her father came in. The friend supposed that the child of so wise a man would be learning something very deep. So he asked her, 'What is your father teaching you?' The little maid looked up into his face with her clear eyes and said, 'Obedience." That is the one great lesson our Lord is teaching us. He wants us to learn obedience. If we obey Him always we shall always be doing things for Him." - J. R. Miller (from "Making the Most of Life")

I also like what my devotional thought had to say about serving in a smaller role:

"We do things for Christ which we do through love to Him. Even obedience without love does not please Him. But the smallest services can render, if love inspire them, He accepts. Thus we can make the commonest tasks of our lives holy ministries, as sacred as what the angels do." - J. R. Miller (from "Making the Most of Life")

Whatever we do, great or small in the eyes of the world, we need to do it in obedience to God. To obey God is to obey His Word. To obey His Word means we need to be reading and memorizing it. We need to be in church learning and hearing it. That way we will know how to obey Him. And when we do, we do it with all our might. We give it our best and only the best. Why? Because we love God!

Krista Jones
7.26.08


Bible Reading Guide:

Beginning to End: Judges 16-18
Old and New Testaments Together: Joshua 16-18 & Luke 2:1-24
Historical: Judges 16-18
Chronological: Joshua 5-8
Blended: Proverbs 3-5 & I Cor. 15:1-28

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