How Do You Serve God?

​How do you serve God? By serving others. When you do something that makes someone else’s life better in some way, you are serving God. Unfortunately, people often serve out of guilt, duty, or pressure. But God wants you to serve out of gratitude for what He has done for you. He made you,  He saved you, and He is taking you to heaven. Gratitude is the best motivator to serve.

​I have learned three things about serving:

1. Serving is one of your life purposes. Mark 8:35 says, “Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (TLB). Until you learn how to serve, you are not really living; you are just existing. You make a living by what you receive, but you make a life by what you give away.
2. Serving makes you more like Jesus. Matthew 20:28 says, “Even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (NLT). If you do not learn how to serve others, you will never grow to spiritual maturity. In fact, you will be a spiritual baby your entire life.
3. Serving is the highest use of your time. 1 Corinthians 15:58 says, “Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord” (NIV). If you want to make an impact and leave a legacy, the best use of your time is to serve God by serving others. Your service to the Lord is never wasted.

​Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, by all the ways you can, in all the places you can, and at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.
- John Wesley

​Make Every Day Count!

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