Life’s Highest Calling
With regards to our lives, let’s consider things in order of priority and importance. The Lord did not leave us without explicit instruction. As Moses directed his people toward the Promised Land, he would clearly remind them that their foremost important duty was to love God, to love God with all their hearts, with all their minds, all their souls, and all their strengths (Deut. 6:5).
When Jesus was asked which is the greatest of all commandments, He profoundly answered to love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and with all your mind. This call to action brings to mind a song from the past titled “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.”
How about you? Do you know how to respond to this call to action?
I would suggest you begin by ministering to the Lord:
Ministering to the Lord is drawing near to him personally and privately. Ministering to the Lord is not about what others see us do, but what the Lord alone enjoys as we spend time with Him. Ministry to the Lord is the highest calling in Life, and every single one of us can do it.
I love it when I come home and my wife has washed and folded my clothes, made a nice dinner, and straightened out our room, but these things don’t even come close to the way I feel when she just takes time to hold my hand, share something important to her with me, or just being by my side, loving me. The same is true of the Lord. It’s a far higher calling to minister to Him, than to minister for Him. (Ezekiel 44)
July 30th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Thanks, Rog, for the reminder that it is service TO the Lord that matters. What an awesome God we serve, and He more than deserves what little service we can render to the One who created the universe.
Why He would even want us to praise Him and serve Him is beyond me. As a strong-willed woman, I battle the “my way is best” and “I can do it better” syndromes. When compared to God (and actually most other people), my way pales in comparison. So I’m humbled that God even considers my paltry efforts and finds them pleasing (hopefully!) to Him.
Thanks for the blog site — keep ‘em coming.
January 25th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hello Roger Route
Thank you for your messages. They are a blessing. It is amazing where God takes you and of course where you have come from. I imagine that you would be the first to acknowledge that it is HE who has brought you this far because few really know how far thou hast commeth. Thanks for the blog site…..I am looking for to future ones….whenever they cometh.
January 26th, 2011 at 11:54 am
Praise god and all his people. Thank god for mt christian fellowship, the pastor, the music, the elders and the presence of the holy spirit.
I cannot really find the words, but god has given me a thankful heart. God has taken my sinful heart and mind and transformed it. He has taken the desire to sin away from me..and it seems all I had to do was ‘get out of the way’. Go figure. As soon as I stopped trying to make it happen, it happened.
Please keep me in your prayers and lets stay in gods mind and heart..
Much love in Christ,
gary