Do you know who you serve? We all serve someone or something. Many people are familiar with the quote, "as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." it is only part of Joshua 24:15
"If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15
We have a choice as to who we will serve but we will serve. God does not share His throne with anyone. If you are serving yourself (living for self)--you are not serving God. Matthew 6:24 says, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." The King James Version says mammon--basically it can be money, wealth, materialism, greed.
In a culture of overindulgence we do not put a lot of weight money and wealth. These are not bad things in and of themselves but when we put the almight dollar (wealth/greed) before God it is a problem.
As we strive to grow spiritually we must turn our focus outward onto others--this is how we are to serve. We are called to serve others. Matthew 6:19-21 says, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."--did you catch that? When we serve others we store up treasures in heaven. I don't know about you but I'd like to have the treasure that lasts forever--not just a lifetime.
Even Christ came to serve--"The Son of God came to seek and to save what was lost.: Luke 19:10
Spend some time this week serving someone else
