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…
sonia
22nd May 2016 at 18:43
Very strong indeed Mrs Vivi
I understood that I can not serve God in lies teaching people things that I do not do I should first apply it to myself before I can teach other people not to the Pharisee
in everything I should consider my salvation .
Lerato Mohlomi
18th May 2016 at 22:11
This is very true. One can only serve God externally if only the internal relationship is well taken care of..
Buhle
18th May 2016 at 14:07
Good day
I recently understood how important my communion with God is when it comes to serving. How I live, whether or not I live in the faith will determine the fruit that is produced. When I become a living sacrifice for God, living in the faith and always walking in Spirit, it is not how much I do or what I say that will bless the work of God but when I speak, lay my hands on people or pray, the Holy Spirit that I live by will testify to the work of the gospel. Remembering the seven sons of Sceva who tried to undo the works of the devil by casting out evil spirits, the demons beat them up because they did not have or live by the Holy Spirit, who is our counselor, who guides us into walking righteously, they probably didn’t live the faith, they just did what they saw Jesus and Paul do. I realized that I have to examine myself and always be consecrated to God so that the tree which is me; will bare good fruit that will last.
Thank you for the messages, they are very helpful.
Segomotso Mabikwa
18th May 2016 at 12:24
Thanlk you for sharing,this is a storng message you shared with us,serving God begins inside , and only after can I serve him externally.I have to have the desire to serve God from the inside.
Salvacion Francisco
18th May 2016 at 9:54
True, we need to maintain what we’ve just started, it is really refreshing, every messages that you can read and analyzing oneself, then it’s coming back, oooops, we are forgeting something…., something that we should do, to evaluate ourselve, be guarded always, we can help others, but we need to help our own first. Thank you.
Hlumela
18th May 2016 at 9:22
To Serve!! (Part II)
this is true…..when you just know what to say to people but there’s no life in what u give…you yourself you will begin to feel tired….
i thank God for making me always see my mistakes and start serving him within!!