Beware of Serving God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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God aims to be our servant, because he aims to get the glory as the Giver.

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0:00.0	October 12. Beware of serving God.
0:04.0	The God who made the world and everything in it,
0:08.0	being Lord of heaven and earth,
0:10.0	does not live in temples made by man,
0:13.0	nor is he served by human hands,
0:17.0	as though he needed anything,
0:20.0	since he himself gives to all mankind, life, and breath, and everything.
0:27.7	Acts 17, 24, and 25.
0:31.7	We do not glorify God by providing his needs,
0:37.2	but by praying that he would provide ours
0:41.3	and trusting him to answer
0:44.3	and living in the joy of that all-providing care
0:48.3	as we lay down our lives in love for other people. Here we are at the heart of the good news of Christian
0:58.8	hedonism. God's insistence that we ask Him to give us help so that he gets the glory. Call upon me in the day of trouble.
1:13.5	I will deliver you and you will glorify me, Psalm 5015.
1:21.1	This forces on us the startling fact that we must beware of thinking he needs us.
1:30.3	And we must take special care to let him serve us, lest we rob him of his glory.
1:37.3	God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything,
1:42.3	X 1725.
1:45.0	This sounds very strange.
1:47.0	Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing.
1:52.0	We have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.
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