Article June 6, 1983 Issue

The inspiration to serve

GERALD STANWELL

Are you discontented with the work you are doing? If so, there is a healing solution—namely, to renew your desire to serve others.

The inspiration to serve with joy can be restored at any time, even if no specific task confronts us. We never need envy another's job, status, or position, because our joy is not dependent on these. The renewal of our joy and of a feeling of purpose comes from our effort to understand God and His relationship to His idea, man, and then to act in accord with our spiritual conviction. God and His creation are entirely spiritual, unconfined by limited material concepts or uninspired thinking. This spiritual man is the true nature of each of us. Remembering this before undertaking a new task or assignment is a great help.

A wonderful rule for serving a world in need is found in Paul's gentle admonition, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another." Rom. 13:8. The New English Bible gives us this version: "Leave no claim outstanding against you, except that of mutual love." It continues, "He who loves his neighbour has satisfied every claim of the law." This is a direct appeal to each of us.

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