HINDRANCES TO SERVING IN
YOUR FAMILY--PART 3
Scripture Reading--Colossians 3:23-24
Most people deal with life from the standpoint of assets and liabilities. They measure everything by how it benefits them. Their mindset is one of always being involved in a transaction. This way of thinking is devastating to the development of a servant's heart. When we serve others, they may compensate us in three ways. Sometimes they won't give us anything for our service. Other times they may give us proper compensation or at least recognition for services rendered. And sometimes they'll give us far more than we ever dreamed.
"Keeping score" inhibits us from having a true servant's heart. The proper way to serve is to remember that we ultimately serve the Lord, as we see in Colossians 3:23-24 and in Ephesians 6:6-8. The wrong perspective will make us stingy and bitter when others don't properly compensate us.
God has promised to reward those who realize their service is ultimately to Him. Because we will rarely receive reward on this earth, we can be tempted to think we are going to be left out of being compensated. If we fight and claw to ensure that we get our way, we probably will. But our efforts will reap a temporal reward versus an eternal one.
God promises to reward those who serve with a willing spirit, and His reward will exceed our imaginations. "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward" ( Heb. 11:24-26, emphasis added ). God will abundantly reward us when we have a servant's heart.
DISCUSS: Are you willing to serve even when you don't receive the recognition you feel you deserve?
--Rick Johnson--
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