True Service

   "Christian work may be a means of evading the soul's concentration on Jesus Christ."

   If I am aware of anything that has characterized my life, it is the willingness to be a servant worker in the church, but the longer I go, the more I am also aware that this has been a service without a concentration of awareness on Jesus Himself.

   It has been much easier to work than to abide, or to even think much on Christ, and this has to been to my detriment. I have rejoiced in the servant's role and felt good about myself without any deep meaning in my life. From reading the Scriptures, it appears that most of my work will be burned up like hay and stubble, and that grieves me.

   Has my life been wasted? Is it too late now to do service correctly?

   Thank God, the realization has come, even at this late date. I want to put my focus where it should be, on Jesus.

   God help me do this and seek His opportunities for true service, not mine.