Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve...

I thought I would have figured it out by now.

How to serve.

This word came so easily to me. So naturally. I knew, without a doubt, it was my word of the year.

But I thought I would have figured out by now how to do it, live it. That it would already be shaping and altering my life.

But so far it hasn't.

So I decided to go to the place that, for me, always holds the answers.

The Bible.

The word "serve" appears a couple hundred times in Scripture. And it's context varies from "serving in the army" and "serving as priests" to "serving bread" and "serving the master".

But as I explored the various verses I seemed to hone in on the ones that talked about serving God.

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve ... But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24

Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Romans 14:18

What if I have been going about this all wrong? Trying to serve others, when God is the one I should be serving. Putting first. And out of that be inspired to love and serve others. The way God would love and serve them. The way God is calling me to serve.

It's easy to say I love God, but what if I proved it by serving Him above all else?