Something that I have been thinking a lot about recently is how God’s most important plan for us is to love people. Now, love may manifest itself through sharing the truth of the gospel with people, but oftentimes it looks just like love. And love almost always is serving people. I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I’ve been asking God to make me excellent at serving.

Today as I was reading in the word, I came across this passage in Psalms that is a really great servant’s prayer:

Pslam 90:16-17
¹⁶Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!

Today when I was reading the Bible, I came across a passage in Galatians that I have read, I’m sure over a hundred times, yet it really hit me again.

Galatians 5:13-14 says,
“For you have been called to live in freedom—not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love. ¹⁴For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (NLT)

I think, as a Christian who is seeking to live in God’s grace, it can be easy to forget why we have been freed from the law. Sometimes, we can focus on the fact that we are free, and forget that we must respond in a way fitting to the gift we have received. We have not been freed to go live however we want to—that would be quite ungrateful. We have been freed so that we can love and serve those around us. I don’t fully understand how this works, but it makes me excited to trust God to show me as I attempt to do it.