To serve (Part II)
- 12
- May
- 2016
There are several ways to serve, as we mentioned in the previous post, but God does not accept everything.
Someone who evangelizes, counsels people, is active in the Church, is not doing anything wrong, but how does this flow from within you?
If you are inactive, that is, your faith is inactive, when you counsel someone you only transmit the awareness of God’s Word, but not the life that is in God’s Word! You are not serving God. You are doing the “Work” of God like the Pharisees:
“Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”(Mt.23: 26-28).
This uncleanness that the Word of God mentions, is when you ignore the fact that it is your duty to correct your mistakes, because you think that everyone makes mistakes! For this reason you tolerate your sins, live with them and only have the appearance of being holy.
Many, after receiving the Holy Spirit, think they do not have to take care of their salvation, because they feel they are already saved and do not need to maintain it. They just think about helping others and not themselves.
Serving God begins inside of me, and only after can I serve him externally!
To be continued next week…
Thando Nothando
17th May 2016 at 21:56
Having the Holy Spirit does not mean you have to relax and not take care of your salvation. Focusing too much on saving other people’s souls leads to the self-neglect of one’s soul with the possibility of losing their salvation. One ends up sinning & justifying their sins as mere mistakes committed by every one else. That is one big way of losing one’s salvation.
Thando Nothando
17th May 2016 at 21:32
Having the Holy Spirit does not mean you have to relax and not take care of your salvation. Focusing too much on saving other people’s souls leads to the self-neglect of one’s soul with the possibility of losing their salvation. One ends up sinning & justifying their sins as mere mistakes committed by every one else. That is one big way of losing their salvation.
Roda Cruz
17th May 2016 at 21:32
Serving God starts really within our self we need to be an example, and always show His character where ever we go. His Word must live in us before we pass it to others.
Emily Erastus
17th May 2016 at 20:26
Very strong helping in church can be done by anyone but few are those who serve God within them
Wanga
17th May 2016 at 19:40
That’s true. I want to serve God, to give Him the best of me in everything. But serving God it is not just being an assistante and doing what it is expected of an assistants to do. It is more than that and deeper than that. I’ve been praying like ” God I want to serve You”. And it seems like an evidence : serving God is when I die my soul goes directly to God. Yes I agree with you Mrs Viviane serving God is to take of our soul
nyakato jackline
17th May 2016 at 12:54
i love that last phrase serving God begins inside of me,and only after can i serve him externally.thats so true before looking at saving other souls we should first save our own soul because you cant give what you dont have.