Service is the pathway to real significance

Preparing For Eternity

At the end of your life on earth you will stand before God, and he is going to evaluate how well you served others with your life. "Each of us will have to give a personal account to God." One day God will compare how much time and energy we spent on ourselves compared with what we invested in serving others. At that point, all our excuses for self-centeredness will sound: "I was too busy" or "I had my own goals" or "I was preoccupied with working, having fun, or preparing for retirement." But to all excuses God will respond, "Sorry, wrong answer. I created (God is the Creator), saved (God is Saver), and called (God is the Caller) you and commanded (God is the Commander) you to live a life of service. What part did you not understand?"

Jesus said, "If you insist on saving your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of Good News will ever know what it means to really live." If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry. God wants you to learn to love and serve others unselfishly.

Service And Significance

You are going to give your life for something. What will it be -- a career, a sport, a hobby, fame, wealth? None of these will have lasting significance. Service is the pathway to real significance. It is through ministry that we discover the meaning of our lives. "Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body." God wants to use you to make a difference in his world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived. If you're not involved in any service or ministry, what excuse have you been using? That is quite a variety of misfits, but God used each of us in his service. He will use you, too, if u stop making excuses.

Thinking About My Purpose

Point to Ponder: Service is not optional.

Verse to Remember: "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10

Question to Consider: What is holding me back from accepting God's call to serve him?