The word for this week is "serve". We'll be looking at Joshua 24:15:
15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. AMP
This is the Hebrew word "abad". Strong's Concordance says: a primitive root; to work (in any sense). Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon adds: to labor, to do work, to serve another by labor, to make oneself a servant. Vine's Expository Dictionary adds: to serve, to cultivate, often used toward God.
When we were first born again and began to go to Bible Studies, most people had the idea that to serve the Lord meant you had to become a Pastor or a Missionary! Those are definitely callings from the Lord for SOME people! But every believer is called to the Ministry of Reconciliation, which is simply representing JESUS to everyone we come in contact with. Many times this is done by our actions and interactions with the people we come in contact with on a daily basis. Sometimes it is random and other times we will have a knowing inside about what we are doing! The main idea here is that GOD is NOT finished with us yet! There is so much more that HE desires to do IN us and FOR us! So the next time you are praying for Kristine and the girls, KNOW that THIS is serving the LORD! Every selfless thing you do is another way that you are PLEASING too the LORD and SERVING HIM! Here is another new song from Brandon Lake called "As For Me and My Home":
Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
