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…
Noluvuyo
19th June 2016 at 20:54
Good day mama
what I learned from the post is that there is a difference between serving God and doing the work of God. I should always strive to serve God and that starts with in.
Thank you
Lydia Busakwe
18th June 2016 at 11:47
Good Day Mrs
My name is Lyda Busakwe from Bloemfontein, once again I thank you for this message as i learned to serve God in a way he requested i need to be the true servant from the inside ,when serving God i learned that it’s not about the position but what i have on the inside for him as my father because it’s from the inside out,if not than i’ll get tired of serving him.
mpho mokoena
17th June 2016 at 8:10
taking care of our salvation is very important, many after receiving the holy spirit they no longer take care of there salvation.They only think about helping other people forgeting about themselves
Raquel Pilarte
11th June 2016 at 8:32
Thank you Ms.Viviane for this strong message.and it’s very important especially for us who are wearing uniform as an assistant.we have to take care of our salvation and to keep the Fire of the Holy Spirit keep burning inside of each everyone of us.
namutebi agnes
7th June 2016 at 15:57
many people receives the holy spirit and they think that they are already saved and they start to help others even forget to take care of their salvation.
Dieketso
6th June 2016 at 20:29
Good day Mrs.Vivane,thanks very much for sharing this message that is really opening my eyes so that I can look within myself and not doing things any how,because y salvation is very important.May God keep on blessing you more and more.