Serving

We had a special treat in church. Os Guinness with his delightful accent spoke! For those of you who don't know Dr. Guinness, he is very famous in the Christian world, a prolific author, and a most insightful Christian thinker. I was so excited to be in his presence. He spoke about how we have come to think of worship as an "experience" and yet it was never meant to be that. It was meant to be a worship "service". Interestingly, the word liturgy means "service." We have come to look at church and in fact, the whole Christian life, as something we should get something from, as opposed to something we should bring something to. It is not about us. It is supposed to be about God. Then he talked of three things we should do to better serve God:
1. cleanse ourselves (through prayer and careful examination) of any of the blinding distortions of our society and self
2. follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit
3. know what our calling is and pursue it for God's kingdom!

I loved that last one. As soon as he said it, I felt my entire being shout, "Write! Write and draw and use those gifts God gave you for His glory!" It was almost audible. The wonderful incredible joy of serving God is that He equips us bountifully to do what He is calling us to do. There is great joy in using what He has given us to serve His kingdom. I had lived nearly half a century before I truly realized that. Serving God's purpose with all He has bequeathed upon me is inexpressibly wondrous.

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Serving God does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have. (1 Timothy 6:6 NCV)



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