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Written by Mike Brown
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
Now I have struggled with what it really means to serve God for a long, long time. I was raised to believe that my service was simply to go to church on Sunday. That's it. As I grew I began to think that it was more of a service to me and to others than it was to God. Not that serving others isn't pleasing to God if done in faith, but they wanted us to serve them by doing things that would benefit them and not necessarily God. Serve on this committee, clean this, do this, sing this. But what does it mean to serve God? Does God want us to be servants? Jesus clearly contradicts this by saying that we are no longer slaves but sons. What's the difference in the service of a slave and the service of a son? The difference to me seems to be the attitude of the father more than the attitude of the son. If the father thinks of the son as someone who will benefit him then the service of the son is no different than that of a slave. However if the father thinks of his son as someone who will benefit from being with him, learning from him, growing as a result of his love and becoming who the father dreamed he would be, then the son's service is a natural out pouring of who the father is making the son to be. So what does it mean to serve God? Could it be as simple as knowing who you are in Him and "being" who He created you to be?
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