FAITH CAPSULE: Serving God is not in title but engaging task for God.
Exodus 3
God created man to serve Him. God is the One and only creator of man, He is a jealous God and the antidote for jealous is attention. Man should give attention to God by serving God diligently. God wants man to serve Him but not to stay away from Him continually.
God said in Exodus 7:16, “And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!” Exodus 8:1, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” Serving God is to be seeking God. To be seeking God is to be seeing Him (seeing God is not by physical eyes but to receive from Him) Among ways of serving God are: Living life to please Him; to be separated from sin; to be praying to God continually.
Serving Him is to be living life to please Him but not pleasing the world around man. Enoch pleased God as Hebrews 11:5-6 recorded, “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Serving God is seeking God.” Please God and reap the reward of pleasing God as it is written, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. (Proverbs 16:7)
Serving God demands man’s separation from sin because with sin man cannot see God. 3 John 1:11, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” Sin is not of God, sin is not serving God.
Serving God is seeking God in prayer continually and it is to maintain constant communication with God. Daniel was praying and giving thanks to God three times a day as his custom since his early days. (Daniel 6:10) While Daniel’s life was attempted by being placed in the den of lions overnight, King that does not know God called out to Daniel as stated in Daniel 6:20, “And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” Daniel served God praying continually before God and no evil could touch his life. Serve God to live life to the glory of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to seek Him diligently.