SERVICE-PERSPECTIVES

Through prayer and meditation on the Word, become willing to let God have all the glory if any good is accomplished by your service. If you desire honor for yourself, the Lord must put you aside as a vessel unfit for the Master’s use. One of the greatest qualifications for usefulness in the service of the Lord is a heart that truly desires to honor Him.

George Muller

The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 221. All quotations taken from books published by Whitaker House are used with permission of the publisher. Whitaker House books are available at Christian bookstores everywhere.

I know this sounds strange, but there is a way of “serving God” that belittles Him, insults Him, and thus robs Him of glory. We must beware of serving Him in a way that implies a deficiency on His part or asserts our indispensability to Him. God is not in need of our service or help. We are in need of His. His purpose in the earth is not sustained by our energy. Rather, we are sustained and strengthened by His. We have nothing of value that is not already His by right.

Sam Storms

God loves adverbs better than nouns; not praying only but praying well; not doing good but doing it well.

Thomas Brooks

A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 128.

Love is power. The Holy Spirit, for the most part, works by our affection. Love men to Christ; faith accomplishes much, but love is the actual instrument by which faith works out its desires in the Name of the Lord of love. And I am sure that, until we heartily love our work, and love the people with whom we are working, we shall not accomplish much.

C.H. Spurgeon

An All-Around Ministry.

No man, however gifted and devoted, is indispensable to the work of the kingdom.

Oswald Sanders

Spiritual Leadership, Moody Publishers, 1967, p. 144.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Author Unknown

Service with the proper motive is worship.

Author Unknown

The Lord grants us opportunities for service in accordance with our ability to make use of them. Accordingly, since not all men have the same ability, therefore not all have the same, or equal number of, opportunities. In the Day of Judgment the number (of opportunities for service, “talents”) will not matter. The question is only, “Have we been faithful in their use?” (see Matthew 25:14-20).

William Hendriksen
Matthew, 1973, Baker, p. 884.

There is no ideal place to serve God except the place where He has set you down.

Eric Alexander

Quoted by Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 103.

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider “not spiritual work” I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and the exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael