A Lutheran does 40 Days of Purpose

We begin the fourth purpose; You were created to serve God. In a chapter that expresses what every Christian should know about ministry and service, Warren calls upon his two biblical motivators that this Lutheran wouldn’t use. The first is that our lives have a detailed plan, right down to where we are when we interact with this text. The second is that how we respond to this plan will determine our eternal rewards.

That we are designed for ministry and want to completely give all of who and what we are to God has my complete agreement. I’ve come to so deeply appreciate why he chooses these two motivators that I’ve come to accept his use of them while maintaining there are other ways of accomplishing the same thing.

When we discover that God has created us for love and demonstrated that love in the sacrifice of Jesus we are in love. Who would not love someone who loves this completely and whose love we desire more than anything else in the world? Since God has so love us, offering ourselves as a living sacrifice to God is the only natural response. It is deeply and eternally what we want to do. Serving others is not optional, it is an expression of our love for God. Why should we cheapen that relationship by doing it for a reward? Who would want to live in a relationship with someone who was maintaining a merit system for future benefits? Warren would say that it is true because it is biblical. The biblical relationship God reveals is like that of a father to a son. There is an inheritance for sure, but the inheritance cannot be earned, it is only given.

Enough of that quibbling, it shouldn’t distract us from the essential and unequivocal truth, we are created to serve God.

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