6.6.08 Serve God or Bust

I haven’t sat down and blogged about my confessions for the last 3 days.  Before going to sleep Tuesday night, I settled in myself that on Wednesday, I would be “joyous”.  I woke up, and I would have to say that I was pretty joyous and joyous throughout the day.  Thursday came and I couldn’t figure out what I really wanted to be on Thursday.  I had no pressing issues in my life that day.  I felt fine, work was fine.  I couldn’t really come up with anything.  Which needless to say I felt kinda bad about.  So last night, I began to wonder, am I really going about this the wrong way.  I definitely believe that we need to ask ourselves that each day, and set our mind on demonstrating a Godly character or position each day.  But I wonder am I wrong in the way that I come up with my confession for the day.  Obviously Thursday, I was led by was feelings – which were no negative feelings at all.  And if Satan, can get you to feel or do too much of one thing, he’ll work overtime to get to feel or do too little of another thing.  So today, it happened kind of differently.  I started praying following the guide of my written prayer checklist.  (You can ask for a blank copy if you want one) As I thanked God for my salvation, something down inside asked me “are you thankful that you’re saved because you don’t have to go to hell?” or “because you are entitled to enjoy the promises of God on earth if you do the work?” or “are you thankful for your salvation because you truly get to (not have to, but get to) serve God?”  And another question quickly came “what does it mean to truly serve God?”  So I’m off to study that passage and the real meaning of that word, and I’ll let you know what God tells me.  But today, I am going to set my heart on being a servant.