By David Phillips
The Same Servant
Can He Depend on You? That is the title to a song we sometimes sing in worship services. The chorus goes like this: Can He depend on you, His blessed will to do? Will you be crowned with the faithful and true, can He depend on you? Verse 3 of the song gets right down to the point we need: He is preparing in heaven a home for all His faithful and own; Are you preparing to stand by His side, or in that day be denied? Have you told others the story of love, showing them what they should do? These are the precepts that come from above, can He depend on you?
On the reliability scale, God is at the top. His great and precious promises (2 Peter 1:4) never fail. We’ve come to depend on the assurance given in passages like 2 Corinthians 9:8: And God is able to make all grace about to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. Our Heavenly Father will make sure we have what we need to do what He wants us to do. Are we as dependable in carrying out what He wants us to do?
During this unusual time of interruption and distraction, when we’re not doing the normal things of daily life, at least in the way we are accustomed to doing them, don’t let the Lord down. Our worship to Him, our service to others around us, our influence for good, our personal growth and strengthening of our families must go on. Just because the details of our circumstances are different right now, let’s don’t slack off. He’s counting on us.
We are undeniably creatures of habit. But we are also the most adaptable of God’s creation. Part of our adaptability is due to His blessings in our lives. When one door is closed to us, He opens another one for us, depending on us to adjust and keep going forward. Serving God should not be an empty habit, or actions that we go through automatically. If that is the basis of our obedience, then when things get difficult, or disruptions come, there is nothing there to keep us faithful. Just like God’s faithfulness and blessings (Lamentations 3:23), our dedication to Him should be new every morning. When our regular daily or weekly routine is disrupted, serving God must still go on.
As different as things around us are right now, there is nothing about our dedication to God that has changed. Remember, as we noted previously, whatever our circumstances may be, He will help us to be sufficient to the situation (Philippians 4:11-13), so that we can be the same servant as always.
Be the same servant.