To serve (Part II)
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- 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…
Ms guni , England
4th July 2016 at 21:53
Like an unserviced vehicle one day it will just die. And unable to move.
This was me at one time.
Adeola
2nd July 2016 at 22:34
Exactly as you said, ‘ Serving God begins inside of me, and only after can I serve him ‘. I cannot only focus on others, i have to also focus on myself. As it is not enough to just be saved today but on continuos basis.
Siphokazi Qingana
29th June 2016 at 10:34
We must not relax when we have the Holy Spirit,we must take care of our spiritual lives as much as we take care of others.
Jowie
22nd June 2016 at 22:20
Indeed, serving God begins inside of me and then i can serve others. We have to flow from within a faith that produces life which is active. We can not serve God with uncleanness…living with uncollected mistakes, we need to take care our salvation even when we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Natasha Angel
21st June 2016 at 17:06
As a servant of God, I should live a clean life and also keep my heart clean as well as my outwardly.I should take care of my salvation because am a soul who needs to be saved before I save others.
Natasha Angel
21st June 2016 at 9:15
We should serve God unconditionally that is without expecting anything in return and we should take care of our salvation because we are souls .Therefore we have to maintain it.