{"id":964,"date":"2008-11-05T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-11-05T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T16:00:21","slug":"whom-are-you-serving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/whom-are-you-serving\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom are you serving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: Galatians 1:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> As a believer and follower of Christ, one should focus on following Christ rather than pleasing and winning the approval of other men and women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> Whom do I serve? Fellow men and women or Christ?<\/p>\n<p>By putting Christ first, and concerning myself with him, then I will be serving him. He will point me in the direction of serving those around me. But if I try to serve those around me first, and search for their approval, then I am not serving Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, this one really hits home.<\/p>\n<p>So often I want to please those around me. And so often that causes me to push you aside&#8230; whether that is because I cut prayer time or study time short or because I don&#8217;t have the energy to do activities you might prefer I do to the other ones I choose. Please guide me in seeking your wisdom. Remind me to approach you first and do your will. You will guide me on what to do next if I just listen. Help me to serve you, and listen to your guidance on whom to serve next. And then protect me as I follow your advice. Keep Satan out of my life. Don&#8217;t let him intervene. I only want to serve you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Galatians 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. Observation: As a believer and follower of Christ, one should focus on following Christ rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[153,672],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap","tag-serving","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}