Chaplain’s Column: Why Not Serve God? Titus 3:5-8
When
opportunities present themselves to serve God, How do you respond? This is a
list of many of the wrong reactions:
1) I can’t.
2) My schedule is
too busy.
3) I don’t know
how.
4) I’m just a
layperson, not a pastor.
Before we make a knee-jerk reaction
and slam these doors closed on opportunities for service, maybe we need to
consider if the Lord wants, or maybe He’s even asking you, to go through it.
Maybe you have never thought that a refusal to serve God as idolatry. I believe
that’s what it is. You are simply bowing down to self instead of submitting to
Him.
The Lord
desires that His servants first be willing to do anything and then seek His
specific plan for them. His unique gifts to followers will serve according to
His will. But when we’ve already made up our mind that we can’t do, won’t do,
or are ill-equipped to do, then we’re acting by our own will instead of His will.
You may serve
the Lord as a godly parent, a worker who shares the gospel with coworkers, or
as a friend who listens to those who are hurting. There is no restriction on
what God can do with a willing helper. The strength of His Spirit overcomes
human limitations. Don’t have enough courage? God can fix that. Don’t have the
right skills? God can fix that.
The wisest
thing we can do to serve the Lord is lay down all those excuses. We should
develop trust that God will empower us to do whatever He calls us to do, He
will see that we are properly equipped and trained (Eph. 2:10; 2 Tim. 2:20;
3:16-17). All the Lord asks us to do is to say yes.
Please remember to
pray for the following:
1. Benny Harris's
wife Glenda
2. Elizabeth
Tillery - Youngest sister of Bill Myrick
3. Cathy Givens
4. Jeff Potts
5. John Durden
6. David Brantley's parents - Dave and Mary Brantley
Yours In Christ
Tom
Snowden, Chaplain
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