Christian Service

To enter into Christian service you must decide if there is a stitch of the old loyalties in you.  We strut and fuss over the minister who does his work "for the money" but say nothing of the minister who serves to do a good job, to fix wrongs or set things straight.  No Christian is called to a task or a work; she is only beckoned to a person...Jesus Christ.  As soon as you lose sight of your calling, you foil the One who called you.  Jesus Christ is the beam of light that leads your way and the point at which the beam lands.  Adam thought the good was in seeing rightly when all along the good was the Lord alone.  Christians lose their minds over which strategy is best, what goal is noblest, whose vision is brightest.  What are we doing?  We have not come into this Kingdom to make something of ourselves; we come into it to gain Christ crucified.  Jesus redeems our life from all the nonsensical strivings of the world.  Why do we return to that world so doggedly.  Live in Christ and through Christ and with Christ.  The rest is hubris.  If what is seen is your work and striving, your good sense, noble ambition and successful ministry, then you are no better than the servant who buried his coin in the ground.  But if the world sees Christ when you do your work, if those joined somehow to your work become lovers of God when your day is spent and they turn to Him for life and purpose because the fires of God that burn in you now consume them, then regardless of whether you are seen or not, you have found your Way and your Way is straight and sure.  Christ doesn't come upon you to inspire your effort; He comes to be all you see and do in all you see and do.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:   2 Corinthians  5:18 NIV