We have a white board in our home mounted on a wall for school but often times I find that I put down a "thought for the day" when one pops into my head.  Leaving it for myself and my family to ponder.  Usually proposed via question.  Lately it seems my  my thoughts have been directed towards purposefully drawing closer to God through service.  Something that sometimes comes naturally and sometimes I have to travail through to get a clearer understanding of what service really means.

Early this morning during my time with my Lord I knew I had a thought to put down.  It read "What did I do with my Lord yesterday?"  I put the marker down and read it again.  At first it hit me a little strange how it was worded and I was ready to erase the "with" and put "for".  But I immediately knew that "with" was the correct word.

I've been serving the Lord for a good many years and like many Christians I've had my mountains and my valleys, highs and lows, times of extreme dedications and deep love of purpose and other times where my commitment to commitment to my God has been the only thing seeing me along.  I have served and I have been served.  I have been directed and focused in the moment and also lost by it too.

Being a servant or serving someone is the heart of God.  It moves Him, it is what He did when he robed himself in flesh ( 1 Timothy 3:16) Serving the lost, hurt, heathen and brothren or for us mothers, serving our family is a ministry.  A full time one.  Doing the work of the Master, being a servant can be time consuming.  The ministry of service along with daily life can eat up the day.  Being a servant is what it is all about along with guarding our own salvation.

As I said, I've been serving my Jesus for a long time and I've seen many people work with great vigor for the Lord but I've also seen many be too busy with the act of service they don't spend time with Jesus.  Building that personal, one on one, needed, must have relationship.  God is a God of personal relationship and sacrifice through service.  He made for each person is enough to drive us to seek out service for Him.  But living in the world and time we live in it is very, very easy to let that relationship come in last.  Despite how things may appear we can't effectively do His work without His relationship.  We might find we end up trying to do God's work without God.

Regardless of whether our ministry is the Sunday School, the homeless, the lost, the elderly, our own family, homes and husbands (the last 3 are for sure and for certain as important as any other ministry God gives us) in order for our ministry to be at it's fullest, directed and guided by Him, we must make sure we have spent our time with Him.  In His word and in prayer.

So when looking over yesterdays acomplishments concerning the Lord the first question isn't "What did I do for the Lord" but first should be "What did I do with the Lord?"

God's Blessings,

Lea