SERVING CHRIST IN ALL WE DO
We are called by God to trust in Christ, to love Christ, and to express our love for and trust in Christ by serving Him faithfully throughout our lives. Since Jesus is what human existence is about, it would only make sense that we exalt Him as Lord of our lives by doing what He tells us to do.
No one could be offended at Christ’s requirement that we serve Him and serve others, since He first came into this world to serve us. His whole life was lived in service to others. He was thinking about you every day of His life. Everything He did was to serve you. He said that He “came not to be served but to serve” (Mark 10:45).
God, you see, cares about people. And that is why serving others in His name is what pleases Him. Do you want to please God? Then be humble and serve “the least of these” (Matthew 25:40). That is the way to be pleasing to God.
We should be concerned about what glorifies God. He is Almighty God. He deserves to be glorified. And we glorify Him by letting Him change our lives. Instead of living selfishly, we are to live a life of good works (Eph. 2:10). That means doing good instead of evil. Doing what is right instead of what is wrong. Being like Jesus and going about our lives doing good in every way that we can (Acts 10:38).
We should love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). And we should let His love permeate everything about our lives, so much so that it overflows to others. Glorifying Him by serving others is what we are here to do (1 Peter 4:10-11).
Being a servant of Christ is about commitment. It means committing ourselves to living for Him and loving Him for the rest of our lives. A relationship with Christ is not about performing duties or going through religious rituals in a prescribed way. It is about adorning our lives with the celebration of Christ, rejoicing in who He is and sharing His mighty name and all that it represents with anyone who will listen. It is about being sincere before Him and living to please Him.
The call to serve Christ is the call to “present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Rom. 12:1). Everything that we do is to be done with God in mind. All of our acts of service are the “true worship” that Jesus spoke of in John 4:23-24.
Everything that you do at home or on the job or in your community or in assemblies with other believers is your spiritual service of worship. We serve Christ by doing what we do “from the heart, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23). Do everything out of love for Jesus.
Bryan Dewayne Dunaway
