{"id":7933,"date":"2011-06-10T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2011-06-07T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:00:07","slug":"blogging-through-the-gospels-luke-chapter-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blogging-through-the-gospels-luke-chapter-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Through the Gospels: Luke Chapter 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reading for Saturday is Luke Chapter 17<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here is what I heard:<\/p>\n

True service is service without need for praise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scripture: Luke 17:10<\/strong><\/p>\n

So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.'”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Observation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In serving God, remember that you are a servant. Do not expect praise, as you are simply doing your job as asked.<\/p>\n

Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do get a lot of joy in the results of some of my service to the Lord. And, of course, I love to hear “thank you,” from those who are impacted by my service.<\/p>\n

I need to remember, however, that my service to the Lord is still expected even when I don’t get a worldly thanks or a thanks from Him.<\/p>\n

I am a servant and it is my job to serve without an expectation of a thanks. Gulp.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that I still shouldn’t offer encouragement and thanks to those who serve me. I just shouldn’t expect it when I serve or work ‘for’ that thanks. The joy needs to come completely in serving and in doing a job with all my heart, always as if for the Lord. Even when no one says “thanks.”<\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Lord,<\/p>\n

As you\u00a0 know, I love to hear “thanks.” I love to get positive feedback and encouragement when I help, and it is hard for me to continue, sometimes, when I don’t get that “thank you.”<\/p>\n

Please forgive me for that.<\/p>\n

I do get joy just in helping but, please Lord, show me how to make that satisfaction increase and my reliance on fedback and praise from men diminish.<\/p>\n

I want to serve the way you designed me to serve– as a true giving servant. Please guide me in that.
\nWhat about you… Do you serve for praise? Or serve because you are asked?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Be sure to record your own <\/em>SOAP observations<\/a> and feel free share your own thoughts or a link to your thoughts, here, too.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Didn’t start reading or Blogging Through\u00a0 the Gospels<\/a> with us? That’s okay, join in anytime. Each Sunday evening I post the reading schedule for the week ahead and each evening I post the next day’s reading assignment and devotional. Feel free to jump in where we are anytime and blog or journal along using the SOAP format<\/a><\/em>. <\/em> Feel free to share your thoughts on Twitter using the #Gospels hashtag, too.<\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>If you would be interested in sharing your own SOAP observations on MomsToolbox as a guest SOAP’er, please send me an email using the contact button on the top right. I’ll be in touch soon to discuss the details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reading for Saturday is Luke Chapter 17. Here is what I heard: True service is service without need for praise. Scripture: Luke 17:10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” Observation: In serving God, remember that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[682,136,342,672],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-luke","tag-service","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}