Customer service is wonderful when it really is a service.
When you are perhaps in a departmental store and you look for customer satisfaction—and it is not provided—doesn’t it make you feel that the customer service department is really not wanting customer satisfaction?
We should consider the same principle when we think of serving God. Teaching children to obey does not only mean their willful follow-through when they are given a chore; fulfilling a chore while grumbling is not true obedience.
The same holds true for serving God. We need to instill in our children, patterned and modeled by our lives, that fulfilling God’s will and way must continue to be that of joy in the service, not joy when the service concludes.
I would encourage you to live to God’s glory. The paramount way to do this is to serve Him with gladness! The Psalmist David exhorts us to do just this in Psalm 100:2.
- Think of three areas in which you serve the Lord. Describe (only to yourself) your heartfelt attitude in them.
- What adjustments might you need to think of making to your attitude?
- How do you encourage serving God with gladness?
- What strategies might you need to implement in order to intentionally cultivate in your children this kind of mindset?
- Join the conversation; I’d love to hear from you!
