Serve the Lord – Foundations of a Worldview

Serve the Lord
Foundations of a Worldview

“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God.…” Deuteronomy 10:12

Serving the Lord is one way that we show that we love Him.

The word, “serve,” is a framework verb. Its purpose is to remind us what is to be the proper orientation of all our “doing” and “walking.” We do not learn the Law of God and use it to plan our day and carry out our plans merely as an end in itself, or for our own advantage. Our purpose in all we do, throughout every step of our walk, is to serve the Lord.

Serving the Lord presupposes that we know Him, fear and love Him, and desire to do His will above our own or any other, because we realize that all His ways are true and right and just and tend toward life.

As we serve the Lord we further His purpose, which is to glorify Himself so that others might know Him as well. There is no greater joy and no higher privilege than to know the Lord (Ps. 16:11; John 17:3), and it pleases God that others should come to know Him by the way we His people live (1 Pet. 3:15).

All our daily actions, everything we “do” as we pursue our “walk” each day, has the potential to honor the Lord and advance His purpose. The Law of God defines the practical ways He intends for us to glorify Him in our words and deeds. Paul explained that our lives must be a “living sacrifice” to the Lord (Rom. 12:1, 2). This will surely be the case as we keep focused on Him and determined to carry out His purposes and pleasure in all we do (Phil. 2:12, 13).

Each of us has a “walk” unique to his calling from the Lord. That walk involves us in “doing” many different things. With God as the North Star in all our doing and walking, we can glorify Him and advance His purposes every day of our lives. If we fear and love the Lord, we will serve Him in all we do.

The book of Ecclesiastes is a crucial resource for understanding the Biblical worldview against the backdrop of our secular age. Follow T. M.’s studies in Ecclesiastes by downloading the free, weekly studies available in our Scriptorium Resources page at The Fellowship of Ailbe. Click here to see the weekly studies available thus far.

Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T. M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).