QUIET QUICK AND QUALITY SERVICE

Matthew 6

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Service standards go up and down in the world, some people serve you well and others leave you with a sour taste in your mouth. but as Christians, how are we to serve people?

Jesus makes it clear that our service is not to be like the world, the people in the world, parade their good works to everyone, they want everyone to know what they have done.

First of all, our service has to be done Quietly, as my Dear friend and Pastor, Mark Johnstone said to me, live for an audience of one. This is what our Lord is saying, serve selflessly, do not trumpet your service.

Secondly, it has to be done Quickly, many times we have opportunities for service, but we don’t take them. they are fleeting and come and go very quickly, we need to pray that opportunities will come along to serve. I have learnt, that although i don’t particular like washing the pots, taking out the trash, when I see it as an opportunity to serve others and glorify God, it takes on a new meaning.

Thirdly, I should always be done, with Quality. After all, look at who we are serving, yes, we are serving others, but we are serving Jesus. when we cook food for others, it should be good enough that Jesus would enjoy it.

All our service, should have one motive and that is the glory of God. Yes, we should serve our fellow believers, but we do things for an audience of one.

The service, we do silently is seen by God, he sees what we do. He will reward, and remember, service done in secret, that nobody sees, will have a reward, if you give a cup of cold water to someone, it will be rewarded, this is the smallest thing we can do and yet the one, who sees all things, will reward you.

We love picking up reward points at our local store and online, let me ask you.

How many reward points will the Lord give you。

Remember to serve like Jesus did Philippians 2:5-11

God bless you

Keith