Just a few thoughts . . .

Biblical Requirements of servants

Reverence: Ps. 2:11, “Serve the Lord with reverence.”

Loyalty: Matt. 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or his will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.”

Regeneration: Rom. 7:6, “…having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.”

Diligence: Rom. 12:11, “not lagging being in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.”

Paul’s example: Acts 20:19, “serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me…”

Love: Gal. 5:13, “…through love serve one another.”

Selflessness: Phil. 1:21, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

In England it is written on the tomb of an unrepentant sinner, “Here lies a man who in all his life never worked one hour for God.” How is that for a final epitaph?  Let it not be said of us!

It is amazing how many servants God has in the world and yet how little service.