SERVICE TO GOD (DEUT. 10:12)

God demands our spiritual service as our worship of Him as we see in the following scriptures:

Psalm 2: 11, Eph. 6:7, Heb. 12:28

From these Bible passages it is obvious that the major service God demands of us is our fear of Him; our obedience of Him; our love for Him and our joy in doing His will.  The Lord is so good that when He commands us to do anything He Himself also empowers us to do it.  See how Jesus Himself doing His Father's will, came to serve men as we read in Matt. 20:28: just as the son of man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.

We see in John 13:4-5 how He washed the feet of the disciples during the last supper.

In Phil. 2:7 that reminds us that Jesus made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

HOW DO WE THEN SERVE GOD THE WAY HE WANTS US TO DO?

Luke 9:23 says, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.'

v  First of all we must deny ourselves and submit totally to the Lordship of Jesus in our lives who alone is the way to God.

v  We must be obedient to God by being sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.  Until we have made Jesus our own personal Saviour the Holy Spirit remains outside our hearts.

v  We do what is the will of God.
Having said all this some may be wondering whether service to God merely is the love of Him.  As James says faith without works is dead.  - James 2:15-16.

We are therefore, enjoined to do good to each other  As Jesus Himself says in Matt. 25:35-36

Good works glorify God: In the same way, let your light shines before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Good works do the following: 

v  They enrich life; 

v  They become a pattern for imitation;

v   They tend to summon others to their own tasks;

v  They demonstrate the reality of our faith in God through Christ Jesus.