So, why serve God? After all we are very busy people. Some of us of have two jobs, children, bills to pay, house to fix, cars to wash, food to cook, who h as time to serve God. Serving God does not seem to be very rewarding in fact many who serve God put aside many of our important house hold duties. Why serve God then? Is there something mystical for serving God? God’s service is closely tide to your relationship with him. There are many people who profess to have a relationship with God but are not actively involved in serving him. When one has a relationship with the Lord an innate passion to do what he pleases surfaces. So, if you are actively involved in your church and where ever duty calls it is a sign that you must have pretty good relationship with God. But, when one for whatever reason does not want to get involved with serving God and that means actually getting their hands dirty in the things of God, it only tells how distant they are from him. Prayer, reading the bible and fellowship is great and is a part of ones relationship with God, but a relationship without action is just half.
Malachi 3:13-15
13 “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord.“Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’
14 “You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? 15 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”
God had a quarrel against his people but they did not know what or why he was bothered with them. They could not come up with a reason as to why God was upset with them. They did not know what they had said against God. Like many of us we try not to say things against God, in fact a great number of us are careful when we mention the name of the Lord. God took it personal the comment in Malachi of the people that said “it is useless to serve God”. Refusing to serve God is negating an important part of the relationship with him and it does not matter what excuse one might have. God treats with distinction those who serve him from those who refuse (Mal. 3:17-18). One of the very first things that come to our minds when we first get to know the Lord is how can I serve him and we see this in Paul’s conversion (Act. 9:3-9). Paul’s immediate reaction once Jesus manifested himself to him as he was on his way to Damascus was “What do you want me to do?” After the conversion the desire to serve should come up. It is a requirement for them that fear God to serve him (Deut. 10:12). God requires that they that call themselves his children and part of his family that they serve him, and not just in church, but earnestly searching where ever. To God’s servants it is revealed the things to come. When we embark in serving God and leaving behind those things that occupy our time he will reveal the what about of them (Rev. 22:6).