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…
Ironica
6th June 2016 at 10:25
This is what satan does to most christians after recieving the holy spirit he blinds them to think they are complete but not realising that salvation is everyday the holy spirit should constansly be revived.
Tolu
3rd June 2016 at 21:17
Thank you Mrs Viviane! What caught my attention was that, yes it is important to help others but most important is to maintain my salvation.
Evelyn
3rd June 2016 at 16:27
Good evening everyone,
Thank you Ms Vivian for another guidelines on how to serve God in a proper way.
Yes, as a servant of God, it is extremely important to look after my salvation very well, every single day and be in spirit at all time. What is the point of saving the whole world when my own salvation is at risk. By saving others I must make sure that I’m spiritually well and my name is written in the book of life.
Thank you.
Yandiswa Somketeni
3rd June 2016 at 11:08
Thank you Mrs Viviane
What i understood from this message is that i can not be naive serve God and forget to save my soul. I can not take my Spiritual life forgranted by not keeping myself incheck all the time. I understand the the value of Serving God bu serving others but take care of my Salvation at the same time.
Maria Moyana
3rd June 2016 at 9:00
I understood that I need to work on my spiritual, making sure I am upright and blameless in His ways. It is only then I can be able to have the zeal to serve Him and give life through His Word which also lives in me.
Maria Moyana
3rd June 2016 at 8:55
I understand that I need to cleanse myelf and be upright before God first before I can begin to counsel other people and tell them about the Word of God. I need to have God’s presence and serving will come naturally.