Grace and peace to you. Here is the word for today.
📖Hebrews 12:28, 29 “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.”📖
✅ Appreciate God for the privilege of grace to serve Him. The motivation to serve lies in the very reason that God has chosen us and dwells in our hearts. Besides, we will reign with Him on earth after His second coming (Rev 5:10; 20:4, 6). The King of kings is now our king. This should be our motivation to serve Him and Him only.
✅ It is a great privilege to serve the King of all kings, the Creator and our Great Saviour. The word privilege comes from the Latin word lex privata or law or rule for private persons, as opposed to a general law which is for everybody. It benefits a few people and not everyone else. Hence, not everybody can serve the King that is Christ. Only those who are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus are privileged to render good works or service to Him alone (Eph 2:10).
✅ With this awesome privilege to serve our Redeemer, God has given us this grace. The words, let us have grace means let us hold fast to grace. The grace refers to the favour of God in Christ which we obtain by the gospel. This grace will sanctify and aid us, giving us the perseverance and ability to serve God, without which we can do nothing. Paul acknowledged that the strength to serve the Lord is from God Himself: “and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me (1 Cor 15:9-10).
✅ We serve God because of His grace bestowed upon us. Apart from Him and His grace we are unable to serve at all, not even to serve Him acceptably.The word acceptably means to please, to gratify entirely. Our service to the Lord must be done in a spirit of worship and reverence to Him. When we arrange those chairs, clean up the church, sit in that committee or share the gospel, it is to be considered as a privilege that we are given to serve His Majesty, the King of kings, our Lord Jesus Christ. Since we serve a great King, do we give our best? Do we give as much as when we give our best to our bosses? Do we make full use of our talents for the edification of the body of Christ? In our service, we are never to serve ourselves. If we do, God is not pleased because He is not glorified (Col 3:23, 24; Eph 6:6, 7).
✅ In our service, we have to be spiritually right with God. God demands a heart of obedience to Him rather than a mere outward form of sacrifice. “Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams (1 Sam 15:22).” Are we serving him with clean hands and pure heart? Serving God is a great privilege that we should not take for granted.
🛐🛐🛐May the LORD help us in our different areas of service to serve Him faithfully and joyfully because it’s a privilege. May the grace to serve abound to us in Jesus Name. 🙏🙏🙏
By Apostle Gift Sira.
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