Don’t think of your service to the Lord as something you can count, as a sort of community service form you can submit for each hour of work completed. Don’t consider your acts of obedience as tally marks on your side of a divine scoreboard! Love dictates a pattern of behavior that cannot be tallied.
"Lovest thou me? Feed my sheep" (John 21:15 KJV).
The Lord would release you from the element of fear that is one of the prime motivators in your acts of service for others. You are afraid you will not be loved. You are afraid they won't love one another properly. You are afraid they will not listen to you, even when you know best. You are so afraid. Let go the fear, and exchange it for faith. God desires your prime motivator to be that you share His heart for those you serve. “To loose the chains of injustice…” (Isaiah 58:6). He has provided for you that you may provide for them.
“Jesus did not consider equality with God something to be grasped…” (Philippians 2:6). He did not appropriate God’s power for Himself, but for the sake of those He was sent to save. He used His power on your behalf. He used what He had been given to benefit you. Now. You do the same. Use what you have been given to minister to the little lambs He has entrusted into your care. Do it out of love; not your own, human love, but out of His love.
Scripture: "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant..." Philippians 2:5-7.
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