I don’t wanna do it!
It’s so hard to think of servanthood as worship. But it is. He calls us to be servants just as Jesus was. I know that it’s in my make-up to be a servant. Some people find it difficult, most of the time I find it easy. Sometimes, however, I need to put serving into perspective. I start to resent. I start to grumble. I start to complain. “Why do I have to be the one doing it all…why can’t someone just invite me to a party, do I have to PLAN it all the time?” Once I start letting those thoughts in, I become unhappy. My life takes a weird turn. I start shutting everyone off and I stew and pout. God says to be a servant, and not to serve to be seen. He wants us to have a fully committed heart and serve with no expectations. This is worship.
Galatians 6:9-10 says, “Let us not grow tired of doing good, for, unless we throw in our hand, the ultimate harvest is assured. Let us then do good to all men as opportunity offers, especially to those who belong to the Christian household.”
1 Peter 4:10-11 says, “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
God is the one who deserves the glory. HE is the only one that should get recognition through all we do. We need to do it in His honor.
I’m talking to myself when I write this blog…this means to wash those cars with gratitude tomorrow at the youth car wash. This means to not complain about how tired I am. This means to serve and know that all we do will be to uplift the Kingdom of God. This is worship.
