30 Days of Truth
Day 14 – heart over help
Romans 12:1 KJV
[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
This scripture has been used by religion to teach that we are all expected to serve God in some capacity as our “reasonable service.”
Yet that is not exactly what this scripture is saying.
Paul is laying out the framework for how our conversion in Christ should change us. He is not ordering all believers to pick a form of service.
Teaching that we must all serve in a church or organization of ministry is destructive. Not all believers are called to such a service.
Not all are called to be pastors or teachers or evangelists, and these and other administrations are more than the sum of education or what can be taught.
Such administrations must be a calling of God on a person’s life.
The call of God upon every believer on Christ is to have relationship with the Father. Anything else is secondary.
God would rather have your heart than your service. Your heart is more important than your “help”.
If you do serve, be sure of your calling.
No man can tell you what God has called you to do. Only God can tell you what He has called you to do.
Every believer can love others and show God’s love to others.
Every believer can represent Christ in their day-to-day living.
Their life is their pulpit and the world around them is their congregation.
Is that not a “reasonable service”?