Have you ever been driven to do something for God not because you felt that it was useful or your duty to do so, or that there is anything in it for you; but simply because you love Him?
Many of us are interested only in our own goals and Jesus cannot help Himself to our lives. But if we are totally surrendered to Him, we have no goals of our own to serve as we have no right in Christian service to be guided by our own interests and desires. The motivation of our lives is devotion to Jesus yet we tend to be devoted not to Him but to the things which allow us more Spiritual freedom than total surrender to Him would allow.
To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. Concern over our personal holiness causes us to focus our eyes on ourselves and we become overly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, out of fear of offending God....."but perfect love casts out fear" once we surrendered to God. We do not change so as to be perfect before God rather as He perfects us, we change for Him.
We should quit asking ourselves, " Am I of any use?" and accept the truth that we really are not of much use to Him. The issue is never of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. Once we totally surrendered to God, Her will work through us all the time.
Never think that to develop a holy life we must always be alone with God as it will lead to us being of no use to others. This is like putting ourselves on a pedestal and isolating ourselves from the rest of society.
Real Christian service is to pour our lives out to the last drop for others. And whether we received praise or blame made no difference. As long as there is one human being who did not know Jesus, we should feel a debt of service to that person until he did come to know Him. But the chief motivation is not love for others but love for the Lord.
When we are motivated by our love for god, no amount of ingratitude, which we may suffered, will be able to hinder us from serving one another.
Once we realised that Jesus has served us even to the depths of our meagerness, our selfishness and our sin, nothing we encountered from others will be able to exhaust our determination to serve other for His sake.
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