Want to Serve God ? Just Follow Him !

"If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor"

John 12:26 (New King James Version)

A lot of us when we talk about serving the Lord have these fixed ideas in our heads... The first thing that comes to our mind is someone standing at the pulpit and preaching ...Thats not it... That is just one of the zillion ways that God uses someone....

The Bible says "If anyone serves Me,let him follow Me" . Wow ! Its as straightforward as that !! Serving the Lord is following Him...Following His commandments.... Following His Holy Word.

Now when we say we follow Him that implies we are not just listeners of the word of God but we are doers of the word of God. We implement and practice the gospel.

We read in Matthew 7:24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock"

Not just someone who hears, but those who do what the Lord has commanded....Only they are considered to be a wise man who built his house on the rock

For those of us who do not do what the Lord has commanded us...who do not lead lives as the Bible has taught us to be, are all foolish people , building our house on the sand ! And one day the rain is going to come and wash it all off.....

While we sit in our air conditioned offices and homes there are people that are dying for water !! Just regular water !! Did you know that all it takes is few hundred rupees to sponsor all the needs of a child per month !

I think I mentioned this reference a few days back ..."Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world"...James 1:27... Lets Follow His Holy Word and inturn Serve Him

Many of us have now entered into a season of lent,fasting or abstaining from something which we like...it can be gourmet food, chocolates,coffee,.... But above all that ...let this be the start of a season where we spend more time with the Lord and understand what it means to serve Him

Lets Follow the Lord !! No better way to serve Him than that !... And in following the Lord let the lives of those around us be blessed. Let us set aside an hour every weekend and visit an orphanage or an old age home and spread the joy of the Lord... .. Just 60 mins out of 10080 mins a week....

Let set aside something as small as Rs20/- a day or a $1 a day and at the end of the month let it be used to touch the lives of people ... we all are created in the image of God... Christ paid the price for us all....we all have one Father ... Lets not let our own flesh and blood suffer while we take things for granted.

"If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me"

God Bless