I Want to Serve the Lord

Question:



I'm tired of waisting my life. I want to start serving the Lord. It's only been a couple of days since I've decided this but I'm sure of it. I have already recieved the Lord as my Savior a few years back. I just never served him like I know I should. I want to start serving Him now because tomorrow might be too late. I have been putting this off for a while but God says that it's time. I really need help. I already took the first step but I don't know what's next.



Answer:



I understand what you are saying and I see that you want your life to be used for a purpose beyond yourself. I want you to carefully weigh my words and think over what it is that you are desiring. I'm speaking to you about this out of my own personal experience and what I am coming to learn in my own walk with the Lord. I was saved at a young age. I knew that the Lord was True and outside of Him there was nothing of any true value. So I told Him the same thing. I told Him that I would do anything that He wanted me to do and I would serve Him. Part of me wanted to do this because inside I felt inadequate. I thought that if I did things for Him, I could come to a place where He would be pleased with me. Another thing that I knew was that I didn't know Him very well, and I wasn't sure how to get to know Him. My times in His Word had a lot of confusion and my prayers to Him all sounded the same. No matter how hard I tried on my own I couldn’t ever seem to get anywhere.

I am telling you all this because the work that He has for you is something that HE wishes to do through you. The emphasis is on Him doing the work. There is nothing that you can do for Him that would make Him more pleased with you. He is already pleased with you because of Christ and Him making you right with the Father.

He desires that you would get to know Him. I would encourage you to stop trying to do things to please Him and rest in what Christ did to make you right with the Father. Learn to be still before Him. He is the One who saved you. All you did was respond to His salvation by saying yes. He wants you to walk with Him in the same manner. After saying yes to Him and whatever He has planned for you, go forward in your day expecting Him to reveal Himself to you. This is a lifelong journey. Take it one day at a time and trust Him one moment at a time.

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