SAVED? SO SERVE

SAVED? SO SERVE.

‘Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. And He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she arose and served them.’ - Matthew 8 :14 - 15

Notice that what Peter’s mom-in-law was healed from was fever. We take fever lightly nowadays. But that was just what she was healed of, yet she took it upon herself to show gratitude by serving using her new found in Christ health to prepare everyone including Jesus Himself a sumptuous dinner.

That’s just all to the passage.

Do you know that any true testimony of salvation should inspire and fuel a zeal in us for service to the Lord just the way it did with Peter’s mother-in-law?

In the now application, we have a sea of testimonies as a result of the finished work of Christ.You can not deny this.

We’ve seen Him come through for us in healing (sicknesses even worse than fever), we seen Him raise our finances, promote us, see us through safe delivery; admission into the university, you got that job, you got the contract, you name it!

And you are even breathing now o or do you not know that ‘we lay down and slept; we awoke, for the Lord sustained us’? - Psalm 3: 5

Then there’s salvation that has translated us from the kingdom of darkness into light - to the kingdom of the Son of His light - seated with Him in the Heavenly places (Col. 1 : 12- 14: Eph. 2: 6).

When we think deeply through the several dimensions of God’s goodness in our lives, we should be thankful. It should trigger in us the desire and willingness to serve this God and our fellow men in thanks.

Gratitude is an attitude, beyond just singing praises and dancing hard on Sundays.

Saved?

So…

Serve God in your church.
Serve your family.
Serve your community.
Serve your country.
Serve strangers.
Serve with your money.
Serve with your time.
Serve with any resources available to you.
Serve because you are thankful…

‘AND WHATEVER YOU DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIM.’ - Colossians 3: 17