To Serve out of reward or love!

I remember a scene from the movie "Facing the Giants" where the coaches wife gets a report that she is not pregnant, again. She is devastated and walks out of the clinic crying and she stops at her truck and starts praying to God. She basically says that God it doesn't matter if she every has a child that she will always  love the Lord. Then miraculously the nurse comes out and says that the results were mixed up and she is pregnant.

It sounds so Hollywood. Almost as if the Christian film industry needed to show God as this happily ever after being. However, this is exactly a picture of God. We see it in His word. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are an example as they face the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. They say our God is able to save us from this furnace and if He doesn't we still will not bow to any other God. Then as they are thrown in the furnace a fourth person appears that look like a son of the Gods (Jesus) and they are rescued. The echoing statement here is that it doesn't matter if they get what they want from God they will serve Him no matter what.

The very notion of serving God, loving Him and doing what we are called to do is not dependent on what He does for us everyday because He done all He needed to do on the cross. That alone is why we serve Him, love Him!

So why the rant on this subject. Well yesterday I just settled up with God that I might choose to do certain things but I will follow the direction that He takes me. I have been searching for the next job and place without any direction. I was looking what would fit for me. Then I said God it doesn't matter what it is as long as You want it. I don't need the money, status or position; I just need You. Then all the doors started to open. It was like the doors to the Ark opened and I saw the land in a new way.

A couple a very awesome opportunities are opening up and both are feasible. However, they will be the biggest test of my faith to date. No matter how they turn out I will still serve and love my God! I will seek you earnestly and praise Your holy name. This life is not about what I can get out of it but how I can serve a Holy and Righteous God; One full of power and glory.

Here is that part of the movie that I was speaking of!