Reading today's reflection on the daily devotional "My Utmost for His Highest", I was reminded of what it means to serve. Here's a part of the reflection of Oswald Chambers:
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God. Service becomes a natural part of my life. God brings me into the proper relationship with Himself so that I can understand His call, and then I serve Him on my own out of a motivation of absolute love. Service to God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God. Service is an expression of His nature. Therefore, when I receive His nature and hear His call, His divine voice resounds throughout His nature and mine and the two become one in service. The son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.
Service is indeed an expression of absolute love. unconditional love. perfect love that comes from God.
- dom
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