Day 29: Accept your assignment

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Day 29: Accept your assignment

Assignment? Yes. Your life on earth is not just to consume the resources, but to give something back to this world. And God gave the fourth purpose for our life, and it is called service, or ministry.

1. You were created to serve God. In Bible it says:

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10

We are being created to serve the God. This is the special work that God assigned us for.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations”
Jeremiah 1:5

God told this to Jeremiah, appointing him as the prophet. This is the special work for him. What about you?

2. You were saved to serve God.

…[God] who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace.
2 Timothy 1:9

The holy life here means service, and you are saved for it. You have a unique task in heaven to fulfill. This is a great significant for you. Jesus has died on the cross to purchase your salvation. Therefore, we don’t serve God out of guilt or fear, but the deep gratitude for all that He has done for us.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and our future is secured.
Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life

Apostle John taught that our loving service to others shows that we are really saved:

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers.
1 John 3:14

Most of us don’t understand that “ministry” does not only means pastors, priests, and professional clergy; God means every member of his family is a minister.
This is what we should do:

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life

A thing to remember is that we are not immediately taken up to heaven at the moment we accepted Christ is because God has a ministry for you in His church and a mission for you in the world.

3. You are called to serve God. God calls every child of His to service. “Called?” you might ask.

Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your calling.
Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life

Something that we must ask ourselves is that how much time are we being useful in the service of God? We need to be connected to a church family to fulfill your calling to serve other believers in practical ways. There are no significant ministries in church. Some are visible for example the worship team, some are off-stage such as the technical team, but all are valuable. In fact, those behind the curtains are those that most important. Without them, the worship team cannot perform well on stage, no? Every ministry matters because all are connected and dependent on each other.
What happen when a part of your body not functioning as it is supposed to be? You fall sick. Likewise, we should not sit on the sidelines as spectators, while watching the body suffers.

4. You are commanded to serve God. In the Bible it was written:

“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:28

Holy living consists in doing God’s work with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. We must act on what we know and practice what we believe. We need more serving experiences in which we can exercise our spiritual muscles. The mature follower of Jesus will ask, “Whose needs can I meet?” Do you ever ask that question?

Preparing for eternity
God will evaluate us on the very end of the day. We as Christians don’t want to lose the eternal rewards in heaven, do we?

“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.”
Mark 8:35

Therefore, if you are not serving, you just exist. Learn to love and serve others unselfishly – that is what God wants from us.

Service and significance
We will give our lives for serving others unselfishly. It is the pathway to real significance. It is where we discover the real meaning of our lives. We serve together in God’s family, and our lives take on eternal importance. In Bible we saw God used various kinds of people. And of course, God will also use you too, if you stop making excuses not to serve Him.





Vincent