The Gain of Serving God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The worship of daily obedience is not at bottom a burdensome giving to God, but a joyful getting from God. That is the true service that God demands.

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0:00.0	May 31st, the gain of serving God.
0:06.0	They shall be servants to Him that they may know my service
0:13.0	and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
0:16.5	Serving God is utterly different from serving anyone else.
0:23.5	God is extremely jealous that we understand this and enjoy it.
0:29.2	For example, He commands us, serve the Lord with gladness, Psalm 100 verse 2.
0:36.9	There is a reason for this gladness. It is given in Acts 17.25.
0:44.2	God is not served by human hands as though He needed anything,
0:48.4	since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
0:55.3	We serve Him with gladness, because we do not bear the burden of meeting His needs.
1:04.3	He has no needs. So serving Him can't mean meeting His needs.
1:12.6	Instead, we rejoice in a service where He meets our needs.
1:20.0	Serving God always means receiving grace from God to do what we have to do.
1:31.2	To show how jealous God is for us to understand this and glory in it,
1:37.1	there is a story in 2 Chronicles 12, Reha Bohm, the son of Solomon who ruled the southern
1:44.7	kingdom after the revolt of the Ten Tribes, chose against serving the Lord and gave His service
1:53.0	to other gods and other kingdoms. As a judgment, God sent Shishak, the king of Egypt,
2:00.9	against Reha Bohm with 1200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen, 2 Chronicles 12, 2 and 3.
2:08.3	In mercy, God sent the prophet Shemayiah to Reha Bohm with this message.
2:14.3	Thus says the Lord, You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak,
2:21.5	2 Chronicles 12, 5. The happy upshot of that message is that Reha Bohm and his princes humbled
2:29.0	themselves in repentance and said, The Lord is righteous, 2 Chronicles 12, 6.
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