CHESHVAN
10
To
Serve
“And
now, Yisra’ĕl, what is יהוה your Elohim asking of you … to serve יהוה your
Elohim with all your heart and with all your being …” (Deu 10:12)
We have all, at one time or
another, dealt with either restaurant ‘servers’, or employees working within
the retail environment, who have waited on us,
the customers, with everything but efficiency. It is never a happy experience, and one none
of us enjoy repeating. And yet, if we choose to call ourselves children of the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we too are called to serve, not with a have to attitude, but one out of love
and adoration for our Creator.
How am I to serve Him?
First and foremost, with all my heart, and all my being – with
everything in me, and with all that I am.
Second, and equally as important, I choose to serve Elohim through my
obedience.
I have learned to ‘fear’ my
Elohim; to stand in reverential awe and admiration before Him; to never wish to
see disappointment and regret upon His face over something I have done. Because of this healthy ‘fear’, I have
learned that the safest journey I can take is when I am ‘walking in His ways’. The longer I ‘walk in His ways’, the more I
come to love Him, and appreciate Him
for who and what He is. The more that I
love my YAH, the more I wish to express this love for Him by serving Him, being the extension of Elohim that
He desires me to be. And I find that no
matter what I do, whether I am working in secular employment, or as a
stay-at-home mom, my employer is still
the Creator of this universe, and it is always His nod of approval I seek.
“And
his master said to him, ‘Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were
trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of
your master.’” (Mat
25:21)
“Servants,
obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity
of heart, as to Messiah; not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants
of Messiah, doing the desire of Elohim from the inner self, rendering service
with pleasure, as to the Master, and not to men …”
(Eph 6:5-7)
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