As a Christian, I have been set free from the law of man. I am no longer ultimately bound by man’s law. I live and abide by God’s law. That is a tricky subject when there is no explanation or understanding. I am ultimately bound by the law of God. When everything is in alignment that means that I will abide by man’s law as well. But that is the key, when everything is in alignment. When they are not aligned, I should be concerned with abiding in God’s law even to the extent of going against man’s law.
The freedom I have gained in God’s law, allows me to follow the tasks that God has for me more freely as I am not bound to adhering to the law of man to accomplish that which God has for me. The thing is that the tasks God has for me are to serve and not to rule and therefore there is little chance of me going against the law of man.
“13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not user your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” – Galatians 5:13 (ESV)
And there it is. The edict from Paul. Serve one another with every opportunity presented. My freedom has been provided by God with my salvation and that freedom is for His glory and should be used in service of Him and all that we come in contact. I am tasked with taking all opportunities and using them to serve as opposed to being served. I am here to give, not to take. I am to seek His glory and not my own.
“26It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 28even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” – Matthew 20:26-28 (ESV)
I have been set free by Christ and have a responsibility to Him through all that I do. As Jesus said in verse 28 above, “even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve”, I have the responsibility to serve as opposed to being served. The greatest will serve and the least will be served. I have to take every opportunity to serve and when I am serving, I am bringing glory to God and completing the tasks He has for me.
What service opportunities are you finding in your day to day? Are you looking for the chance to be of service to others or those opportunities to be served by others? What if we took every opportunity to serve for the glory of God as opposed to for our own glory?
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