- 12
- May
- 2016
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…
NANSUBUGA SUMAYIYAH
22nd May 2017 at 17:02
Hello Mrs Viviane, i learn that if am inactive in the work of God or feel like i don’t have anything to do or bored it is a sign of coldness in my faith and so I’ll need to recognize where am getting bad to fix myself before it’s too late.
Kabelo Tswaana
8th May 2017 at 13:39
Yes Mrs V,only when we are Right with God, within us,can we help others.
It all begins in us,our inner most.
Gayathri
6th November 2016 at 18:14
Yes. It is very true. We cannot save others if we are not saved first. And before preaching to others I must be doing it. And being hypocrites is not deceiving other but their ownselves..
Jane Mkutu
27th August 2016 at 12:07
Thank you for the message, because now i understand that to serve God should begin inside of my heart and i should be saved first.
Kitso Mologi
27th August 2016 at 12:03
Thanks a lot. I have learn t that serving God begins inside of me so that what ever that i offer to other people is what i have also.
Botho Evelyn Joel
27th August 2016 at 11:59
Thanks. I now know that i can only give other people what i have so for me to save others i have to be saved first and that will help me do the work of God with interest differently.