Title: What Motivates You to Serve the Lord?
Text:
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (HCSB)
18 Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God."
21 He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Observation:
There is nothing more motivating than the power of the gospel of Christ, and the commission of Christ to His followers.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (HCSB)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.
The servant of the Lord has confidence in the Master and the Mission.
2 Corinthians 5:5-8 (HCSB)
5 And the One who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
6 So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
7 For we walk by faith, not by sight,
8 and we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I ask for the enabling power of the Spirit to be able to fulfill my God assigned commission of being an ambassador for Christ. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
"A charge to keep I have, a God to glorify, a never-dying soul to save,
and fit it for the sky.
To serve the present age, my calling to fulfill;
O may it all my powers engage to do my Master's will!" - - Author Charles Wesley
Proverbs 30:5 (ESV)
5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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