Luke 17:7 "Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'? 8 Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink'? 9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
Gods work is never done. He works tirelessly, and endlessly on our behalf. Christ is just another version of the same story. There is always something else, one more prayer to answer, one more soul to find, one more life to touch. They will never stop working for the good in our lives. So when we look in the mirror what life do we see for ourselves? I know if I am honest with myself, my life often is spent looking for the stopping point. As a matter of fact, that is how I plan a lot of my endeavors….I find the completion point, and mark it. But what if we dared to live differently? What if we decided to live as large of a life as God has planned for us? How would we do that? Remove the end point! In truth there is no end to our story. God did not say go live and then die, He gave us His Son to ensure that we had the chance to live a life eternally with Him. This means that our work too……is never done. We serve a great God, and there is so much to be done that we could fill every hour of every day, and still not finish the list.
Now I can hear you already, Oh great another person ranting about how we do not do enough for God. WRONG! If you are looking at serving God as some chore, then you have missed the beauty of the gift that has been given to us! That is what it is, a gift. We have been tasked with bringing the good news to the world. We have been asked to live a life in the model of Christ. That my friends is not a chore, it is an honor. I would say that if you are looking at what needs to be done, and looking at where the end point is, then you are not working for God, you are working for yourself. Even noticed that anything you do alone seems to be drudgery? The task is long, and drawn out, and you can’t wait to be finished. I will tell you the truth, that is were a lot of us make our mistake. The tasks we were given were never meant to be tackled alone. We have a Spiritual army at our disposal. The Holy Trinity is waiting in the wings, hoping, and begging for you to “put them in the game”.
Oh it is true, as servants of Christ our work is never done, and there is nothing that we can do to “win the favor” of God. The favor we think we need to be given, has already been freely given, before we ever asked. It is up to us to seize it, to remove that little red pin on our map of life, and commit to work endlessly for our God. Not because of what we will get, but because of what we have already been given. You have heard the saying there ain’t no rest of the wicked? That was a misprint. The correct phrase is there ain’t no rest for the redeemed. To fully live the life that God has in store for us, we must commit to fully live! We have to pull the pin, and attack life. Forget about when is the end, the question is what is next? When we turn off that lie in our head that tells us that we have done enough. Then we start to then a life of abundant joy pursuing God’s work.
Think it is not worth it? Are you thinking it might be too much work? Maybe you are just not equipped……I want you to think about Christ. What if He had thought that!? Did He not go and pray the night before His death for His Father to take the cup from Him? He KNEW what was ahead, He KNEW the daunting task, He KNEW it was going to be a lot of work. Yet how did He finish that prayer? Not by my will, but by yours. He was ready to serve His master, His Lord, His Father, until the very end, until the last breath, with every fiber of His being. He was a true servant. Folks we are going to serve someone. As a line from one of my favorite songs goes. It might be the devil, or it might be the Lord, but we are going to have to serve someone. Wanna sit back and enjoy the comfy life? Go right ahead that will serve someone juuuust fine. Want to explode your life? Want to see your life and those around you transform from the ordinary to the extraordinary? Serve the Lord, as vigorously as He has served, and continues to serve us! Think I am kidding? I dare you to try it. you Give the Lord 2 weeks of all out service, jump right into the deep end with Him. Amazing things await.
God Bless,
Brian Thetford
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