Real servants serve God with mindsets principled in integral attitudes under God.
Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes.
They let God use them for his purposes.
Fact: No Elect can ever be a true servant of the people under God when they are full of themselves.
It’s only when one forgets oneself can they do the things that deserve to be remembered.
In the Bible, a steward was a servant entrusted to manage an estate.
Servanthood and stewardship go together,6 since God expects us to be trustworthy in both.
The Bible says, “The one thing required of such servants is that they be faithful to their master.” 7
If you’re a servant of God, you can’t moonlight for yourself. All your time belongs to God. He insists on exclusive allegiance, not part-time faithfulness.
Many seated through inept inaction's would imply, “After I achieve my financial goals, I’m going to serve God.” That is a foolish decision they will regret for eternity.
When Jesus is your Master, money serves you, but if money is your master, you become its slave. Wealth is certainly not a sin, but failing to use it for God’s glory is.
Servants of God are always more concerned about ministry than money.
The Bible is very clear: God uses money to test faithfulness as a servant.
That is why Jesus talked more about money than he did about either heaven or hell.
He said, “If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?” 9
There’s no place for petty jealousy between servants. When you’re busy serving, you don’t have time to be critical. Any time spent criticizing others is time that could be spent ministering.
Because they remember they are loved and accepted by grace, servants don’t have to prove their worth. They willingly accept jobs that insecure people would consider “beneath” them.
Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.
If anyone had the chance of a lifetime to flaunt his connections and “name-drop,” it was James, the half-brother of Jesus. He had the credentials of growing up with Jesus as his brother. Yet, in introducing his letter, he simply referred to himself as “a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.” 16 The closer you get to Jesus, the less you need to promote yourself.
Imagine what could happen if
just 10 percent of Congress
got serious under God about their role as real servants.
Then imagine all
the good that could be expeditiously done.
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ReplyDeleteServants don’t wrap themselves in robes of superiority.
ReplyDeleteServants find status symbols unnecessary, and they don’t measure their worth by their achievements.