Ephesians 6:7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men

Being willing to serve God does come with a price. Being willing to serve God does come with rewards.

It should not be the rewards from man that we seek in our lives but the life with God that we can look forward to that spurns us on.

I have learned to live with what God gives me and what He takes away from me; not because I give in but because I see that it is better for me.

Don’t always expect to be given and earthly reward from God just because you are willing to do Him service!

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.

It is Christ who gave out the great commission. It is God who gave us instruction to spread the Gospel. It is the Holy Spirit who indwells us to empower us with the Gospel.

When we speak about God to others we need to aim to please God with our words and not to please man with our words.

If we aim to please man we will only get a reward from man…

I know God has many things in store for those who are willing to follow Him and obey Him. Come and share in God’s kingdom!

Proverbs 24:29 Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

It is hard not to hit back at people when they hurt you. That is our natural reaction; but not what God has required!

When we react rather than act we do what we have learned as habits and not what we have learned from God.

Christ did not show us a ministry of reacting but a ministry of reaching out through actions and through God’s love.

God wants us to make a difference in the world and not to react to the world and keep it going!