A Servant’s Heart

 

By Andrea Merrell

Do the will of God with all your heart.  

Work with enthusiasm, as though

you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

Ephesians 6:6-7 NLT

 

She was already doing so much—teaching Sunday school, leading a Bible study, greeting, and working in the nursery—then they asked her to clean the church building.

The woman was exhausted and heading for burnout. Going to church felt like going to work, but she had a servant’s heart and couldn’t bring herself to say no. 

Sometimes we need to stop and ask ourselves, Why do I do what I do? Is it because I truly love my  place of service and feel called by the Lord, or have I been guilted into something I really don’t want to do?

Paul tells us that when we serve, it’s not to be as “men-pleasers” but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. He goes on to say that whatever we do should be done “as unto the Lord and not to men.”

Let your heart—and your service—be motivated by grace, not guilt, knowing that “the Lord will reward each one of us for the good we do” (Ephesians 6:8 NLT).

That’s God’s way.

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