Serving God without Burden

There are pastors and ministers feel that the long they serve in the church or ministry, the heavier burden they get. They get too much things to take care of: family issues, members issues, kids issues in the school. Gradually, they lose the Grace of God and joyfulness from heaven.

Serving God is a special privilege for you. More importantly, true serving brings joy and satisfaction.

Do you remember the day when you know you get saved by Jesus Christ? God wants you to pass happiness of saving through you, you can not lose it. It must keep growing, the life of Gospel should continuously be shown in your life, the fruit of Holy Spirit will be shown though your life. So you should have joyfulness, pease and restfulness of God. If you do not have these things, you push yourself to peace it, I think the only thing you can do right now is return to the original point, let you be a ordinary member in your church first and listen to the word of God and get Grace from him, then you go back to your original position to serve.

2 Chronicles 35:1~3

35 Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s temple. 3 He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel. 4 Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon.

if you are familiar with King Josiah story, you should remember his accomplishment is much more than other kings in the history of Israelis.  He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 35: 18~19

18 The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem. 19 This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

I think, this story give us some lights from Word of God.The most important work for a pastor in the church is that he need to lead members join one of the ministries in it.  And then keep encourage them.

2 Chronicles 35:2~3

2 He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the Lord’s temple. 3 He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.

King Josiah understood that it was burden for Israel people to serve God even if they are very zeal on it at the beginning. He decided that they have to unburden first, and then put the burden in the holy temple.

Yes! You do not necessarily hold your burden on your shoulder, put it to God! Jesus himself is our sacred ark. The key thing is not how long and how good we hold the sacred ark. God did not let us to hold like that way. He just want us to simply unburden it in the temple and only concentrate on the relationship between God and us.

My friends, please practice according to King Josiah’s suggestions. I trust the joyfulness and peacefulness will come back to you shortly.

Serving God without Burden