This post may be a bit random, so hang on.
What is the motivation of service? At it's root, I mean. Do we serve, or help someone simply because it's the right thing to do, and that God commanded us to do so? Or is it because we enjoy the thought of helping someone else's day go smoother? If that's the case...
Can selflessness be selfish?
I serve, and enjoy doing it. The smile on people's faces fills me with an enormous sense of satisfaction and purpose. When I am down, and I do something, and someone says "Thank you," I no longer feel down. So...am I serving so that I feel better about myself?
It arouses much debate in my mind...as I'm sure it does in yours. Everyone has an opinion! Share it with me.
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This is something I've been thinking about lately...great minds! I know that the Bible tells us that when we give, it should be anonymously. Too often we humans want the credit, when the credit should be God's. Still, though, I don't think that the good feeling that giving brings is wrong. I think that's just Jesus smiling in your heart because He's just won another battle.
You raise an interesting question. However, when we do anything in our Father's Name, it's bound to make us happy because we made Him happy. And we love Him.
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