Loving God, Loving People, and Serve the World

In the past year the church I attend adopted the slogan “Loving God, Loving People and Serving the World”. I had some time off over the holidays and have been thinking about the coming year and the direction the Lord is leading. Every time I have turned around these last few weeks those words kept coming back to me - to love God, love people and serve the world….

I promise that I am not the smartest person in the world, but I knew it was the Lord speaking when He told me to not recreate the wheel or try to think of some “New Year’s Resolution” for the coming year. So, I want to ask you to think about those words and see where the Lord leads you…

Loving God- I want to seek out a closer walk with the Lord. I understand and realize that the difficulty in those words is how to do that. I think it means cleaning up some sin in my life, looking forward instead of backwards, looking to the King of my Life first instead of asking for forgiveness after doing something that came from my own wisdom.

Loving People- This might be the toughest of the 3 because we want control in this area and often choose the people we want to love and associate with. I know that is not God’s view of loving people because He said whatever you do for the least of these you do for the Me. Loving people means opening up the safe of your heart and your life. It means seeking to love those people that God has placed in your life rather than just loving those you are more comfortable with. It means loving those family members that you normally try to avoid so not to cause trouble, but still remembering to put God before your family.

Serving the World- In Matthew 14 Jesus asks the disciples to bring him what they had in order to feed the 5000, in the same way God is asking you to do your part in bringing what you have to Him. God's ways are not our ways - we may not think so, but the little things do make a difference in the Kingdom of God. We often wish we knew the impact our efforts make for the Kingdom but unfortunately we still see through the glass dimly but be patient good and faithful servants because God will reward your efforts for those little things you have done to the least of those around you.

So, here is my disclaimer in this posting….do not get mad at me if God is poking your heart strings and telling you to consider changes for the coming year. Do not worry about tomorrow because you have enough to worry about today!