Your age, status or position in life doesn’t matter. You can at any age be involved in the work of the Lord. You can serve the Lord in many different ways. You can pass out a Gospel tract, give a word of testimony, personally witness, attend all church services, do good in the community, take part in children’s meetings, pray both privately and publicly………….the list goes on!
Look what 1 Samuel says in Chapter 16 verses 1, 6 and 7
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him. But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Please note that it doesn’t even matter what you look like. The most important thing is what you look like inside. God looks deeper. You may fool everyone with wearing your Sunday best, your great singing or even that great smile but what is your heart telling God?
If you were to score your standing with God in regards to your relationship with Him, what would your score be? Would it be a 1, 10 or somewhere in-between? I am sure we all need some improvement.
What things do matter?
• Be in the right place with God
• Be a faithful worker in the small things Luke 16:10 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
• Willing - 1 Samuel 16:13-14 “And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren:”
• Obedient - 1 Samuel 17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him”
What can I do? We can all do something. What?
• Pray
• Teach
• Be there – we should be committed to our local church. We should not be missing our own local services. We should not be looking excitement. In the countryside we used to have what they called bungalow blight. We now have caravan or holiday home blight. People are running away every weekend to somewhere else. Sometimes they don’t even make it to another church. One comment I heard was, “We just had a walk and felt at one with nature”.
• Children’s work
• Pass out a tract – why not adopt a street in your community
• Good works – Visit those in need. Do something for them.
• Send out a card with verse of encouragement
• Invite people to meetings
• Etc
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2 Kings 5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
We all have OUR part to play. Yes EVERYONE!
What are you doing?
Action - Make a list of 3 things that you could do now and do them
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