Servants of God

When you get out of bed every day what is your mission? Do you have a mindset that you are going to serve yourself, please others, or serve Christ?

There really ins't a bad answer there. The problem begins to arise when your sole purpose is pleasing others. We are called to serve others not please others.

We can't just do things to make other people accept you. We must serve and love on others as Jesus did.

Am I now trying to win the approval of human begins, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. (Galatians 1:10)

In Galatians 1, Paul speaks harshly to the Christians in Galatia because they were in serious danger. He wasn't afford to say the right things to make them feel happy. I believe that is where we go wrong. We are afraid to confront other Christians just because we went them to still be happy and to like us.

That is what I used to do. When I would talk to others and they would ask me for advice I would often just tell them the things that they wanted to hear. I knew that the things I was sharing with them was truthful, I just shaped my words in such a way that they wanted to hear. That is the last thing that should've been done. I would've been better off not saying anything rather than saying things to please them.

I reached a point in my life a couple months ago where I would tell people how it is. I didn't do it in a mean way, it was out of love and service for Christ.

Have you ever felt convicted before? Conviction is that feeling you feel when you realize that you were doing something wrong, or there was something that you should've been doing. It's not a good feeling. It makes you sick in your stomach.

We are convicted by the Holy Spirit and I believe that we have the ability to make others feel convicted when we are serving others as servants of Christ.

When we serve others as if we are servants of Christ that is when conviction will be felt. That is what God calls us to do. We weren't put on earth to make everyone happy. We can't do that because we aren't perfect. Only God is perfect and the message of Christ Jesus is the only perfect message there is.

When we share the gospel in everything we do that is when we are being servants of Christ.

My one thing for you today is to be a servant of God...not a pleaser of people.