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Motive for Service
“For the love of Christ constraineth us”
(2 Corinthians 5:14).
When it comes to service for the Lord, or anything in the Christian pathway, it is not he or she who knows the most that walks the best before the Lord, nor even he or she that reads the most, but he or she who loves the most. Intelligence in divine things does not come merely through the intellect: it comes through the heart and conscience.
Sometimes, sad to say, we don’t do anything for the Lord, and that is a real problem. We get so occupied with our own interests and ideas and getting ahead in this world that we don’t have any time left for Him. Other times we go ahead and do something because we feel we ought to. Perhaps it will not be done in the right way or for the right reason, and God may not be able to bless it fully. Nevertheless, we can Christian work without really being in communion with Him. But isn’t it better when our service springs from a heart of love because we are in communion with the Lord? “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His name” (Hebrews 6:10).
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