Serve the Lord Enthusiastically…Never be Lazy!

Romans 9; Romans 10; Romans 11; Romans 12
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Scripture

Romans 12

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

11 Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.

Observation

The word “never” and the word “always” are tough words to keep. In fact, we can’t keep them perfectly, but God can. He promises, “I will never leave you nor forsake you and He says, “I am with you always…”

We work hard for the Lord and do it enthusiastically for a time and then we slack off. Paul says, “Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.” He puts that word “never be lazy” in that sentence right before work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.

To be able to accomplish what God wants us to do we must rely on His Power and His Strength because it is impossible to do it on our own. If we are tired and feel lazy it may be because we are attempting to do God’s work with our own power!

When we are tired and catch ourselves being lazy it is probably because we have crawled off the altar and are no longer living sacrifices. God has called us to be living sacrifices and everyday we have to make the decision to stay on the altar and not crawl off!

Activity and busyness done without God’s Power does not equal serving the Lord enthusiastically, and it will leave us run down and tired. Hmmm…! And it also causes us to look at others negatively and causes us to wonder why they are not helping us with all the stuff we are busily doing. Hmmm…!

REMEMBER:

What God puts in our hearts to do always requires hard work …so do it as unto Him and do it enthusiastically and do it relying on His Power. Pray for leaders in your church that they would be able to do what God is prompting them to do and ask God to give them His Power to accomplish the task that He has laid on their hearts! Every good idea or I should say “great idea” that God gives us always requires “HARD WORK”.

Application

I will memorize Romans 12:11 today and ask the Lord for the Power to serve Him enthusiastically.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I present my body today as a living sacrifice. Help me stay on your altar all day. Help me not to be lazy and help me to serve you enthusiastically. Give me the Power to serve you with my whole heart. I pray for the leaders of our church that they would also serve you with that same Power. Help all of us not to let up and not to give up!

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