The Servant

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
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To an obedient heart, the servant’s question is not, What am I doing? or, Where am I going? It is simply, Am I doing the will of my Lord? We have to always be on our guard against a spirit of self-will and self-pleasing, which is never so dangerous as when it clothes itself in the garb of religious service and so-called work. We as Christians are very apt to jostle one another; indeed, we are sure to do so if we do not each one pursue his own divinely appointed line of work. If the Lord has made one man an evangelist, another a teacher, another a pastor, and another an exhorter, how is the work to go on? Surely it is not by the evangelist trying to teach and the teacher to exhort, or one who is not fitted for either trying to do both. It is not a question of taking upon us much or little, but of doing our appointed work and filling our appointed places. It is by the effectual working of all the members, according to the measure of every part, that the edification of the whole body is promoted. If I allow my work to get between my heart and the Master, it will be little worth. We can only effectually serve Christ as we are enjoying Him, nor is there anyone who can minister Christ with unction, freshness and power to others if he be not feeding upon Christ in the secret of his own soul.