Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: March 13th

" Serve the Lord with gladness," - Psalms 100:2.

It is our privilege to serve the Lord in all things. It is ours to please the Lord in loosing the latchet of a shoe; and to enjoy the expression of this favor therein. The servant of God is not serving at the same time another master; he has not been hired for occasional service; he abides in the service of his God, and cannot be about anything but his Master’s business; he eats, he drinks, he sleeps, he walks, he discourses, he findeth recreation, all by way of serving God. For the will of the Lord imposes at one time a task; commands at another time a recreation; bids him listen in this hour to music, and in that to speak the words of life; places in his hand a news paper now, and after a while a pen; guides his feet to the bed side of the sick, and to the hovels of the degraded; leads him to the banqueting chamber of the rich, and gives him words for that place, and seats him at the humble board of the laboring man, and teaches him words for that occasion; bids him bow the knee in prayer, and bids him also come forth from prayer; compels him to exhibit gravity, and again bids him be all cheerfulness. The will of God concerning us is manifold. Let us pray to be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom.

Serve the Lord with gladness. Can you bear to be waited upon by a servant who goes moping and dejected to his every task? You would rather have no servant at all, than one who evidently finds your service cheerless and irksome.

Serve him with gladness, for he is the best of beings.

For his commandments are not grievous.

For he is your Saviour, as well as Creator; your friend, as well as Lord.

The angels, so much greater than yourself, know no reason why they should not serve him with gladness.

In serving him, you serve yourself.

You make religion attractive.

You get a fitness for heaven.

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