There are various ways our service of Christ can become tangled in a web of wrongful reasoning. For some of us it is because we fell into a wrong view of Jesus himself. We struggle to believe that he can really be as generous as he is. We think that there must be a catch if he is really going to love us and save us. That catch is that we will have to work hard for him if he is really going to keep his promises to us.
Jesus came to serve. Jesus comes into our lives to serve us. There is no catch, there is just loving, humble, kind service by the creator of all things as directed by his father to do. Jesus does not wait to see if you will serve him, he simply serves you. His greatness is not that he can command the service of billions, it is that he serves billions.
If you follow Jesus, your relationship with him, your status before God his Father and the promise he gives to fill you with his Spirit will never depend on how you serve him. It is all about his service of you. What do you really want? What is the desire of your heart? Maybe it is rest from the burdens and weariness of life. Maybe it is hope at a time when despair seems the only real option. Maybe it is someone who will love you faithfully. The desires of our heart, our deepest hopes and dreams, are precious. Jesus promises these to us on the basis of how he serves us, not on the basis of how we serve him.
Jesus says, ‘Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends’ John 15;13.
Jesus’ death transforms the relationship we have with him. It makes him our servant but it also shifts what it means when we serve him. His death brings us, his people, to him in marriage. We become his bride and he becomes our husband. It also brings us to God as a Father, not only as a King. So many blessings flow from these new relationships that we have with Father, Son and the Holy Spirit who the Father sends to live with us. One of them is that we now serve the Servant as a bride and as children.
Jesus was asked once which commandment of the Law was the greatest. He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these” What God wants is really quite simple: He wants us. All our service for God must flow from those two commands to love, or it is not real service; it is a futile effort at best. Mark 12;30-32 and also Matthew 22;37-39. Powerful meaningful straight to the point scriptures.
Jesus came to serve. Jesus comes into our lives to serve us. There is no catch, there is just loving, humble, kind service by the creator of all things as directed by his father to do. Jesus does not wait to see if you will serve him, he simply serves you. His greatness is not that he can command the service of billions, it is that he serves billions.
If you follow Jesus, your relationship with him, your status before God his Father and the promise he gives to fill you with his Spirit will never depend on how you serve him. It is all about his service of you. What do you really want? What is the desire of your heart? Maybe it is rest from the burdens and weariness of life. Maybe it is hope at a time when despair seems the only real option. Maybe it is someone who will love you faithfully. The desires of our heart, our deepest hopes and dreams, are precious. Jesus promises these to us on the basis of how he serves us, not on the basis of how we serve him.
Jesus says, ‘Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends’ John 15;13.
Jesus’ death transforms the relationship we have with him. It makes him our servant but it also shifts what it means when we serve him. His death brings us, his people, to him in marriage. We become his bride and he becomes our husband. It also brings us to God as a Father, not only as a King. So many blessings flow from these new relationships that we have with Father, Son and the Holy Spirit who the Father sends to live with us. One of them is that we now serve the Servant as a bride and as children.
Jesus was asked once which commandment of the Law was the greatest. He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these” What God wants is really quite simple: He wants us. All our service for God must flow from those two commands to love, or it is not real service; it is a futile effort at best. Mark 12;30-32 and also Matthew 22;37-39. Powerful meaningful straight to the point scriptures.
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