Service

No one can serve two masters. You would either love the one and hate the other or hold on to the one and despise the other - Jesus. 

Am I supposed to serve God only in the Church? 

What does serving God mean? Why service? 

Service is any activity that is rendered for the gratification of others. Service to God is worship. It is any good thing that is done either to God or men that makes God proud, giving him pleasure in our lives. 

Christians are called to serve. Leaders are chosen to serve. We are alive to do something that is beneficial not just for ourselves. Every man on earth has breath for a purpose. While there may be no scale to judge or weigh the things we do in service, please do not hesitate to keep on in it. 

I see people who claim to be Christians, indeed Church-people who use the lingo and all, sit on their high chairs, slurping happily away without a care in the world about getting their hands dirty. Even in attendance of church meetings called "services", everyone wants to sit back and be served forgetting that every other person also came to be served. Believing that service makes you lowly they don't want to participate in anything that involves them expending themselves albeit necessarily and forgetting that services were rendered for each person to get where they are in life. They claim to do their part and leave the rest for someone else who is perhaps thinking the same. 

How can I serve myself - work for my own ends, devote my time of life to my personal consumption yet claim that I have done my part in the world? Who's gonna make the world a better place? Isn't this a form of hypocrisy? Without concern for the good of others, without interest in the state of humankind, how can one claim to be truly serving or even serving God? There are some living 'the good life', paying little or no thought to even those related to them. Everyone should pay for their own meal or not eat at all, right? Do you think your payment is enough for all the services you've enjoyed? No! And do you think you must be paid for all your services? No! Since life began, existence has been supported by parties bending to each other. If I don't bend, how will I carry you, and how will we climb higher? And I see some supercilious church workers who act well in church services but outside that are guilty of double lifestyles, saying something about theology and secularism, excuse me, can service to God be rendered only at your local assembly? We all need each other and the services we can offer. All motion is caused by devotion. 

Service is influence, living and touching lives that may be unaware of our giving, indelibly leaving a mark. Serving God is helping humanity, pursuing peace and working for good in others. It is much more than being pious and law abiding. It is invention and innovation. It is neither a sacred nor secular concept. It is the way to live.

No one can serve himself and make positive contributions to the society. He will either take the one and neglect the other or abide to one and ignore the other. Tell it to everyone you know; if your action is helping someone somewhere without necessarily doing you good, it is service. If you're serving reverently, you're serving God. Stay worthy. 

06/10/2016 

#UnChurched 

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