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DATE: 06/02/2005 09:53:21 AM

Beyond Duty to Delight Luke 17:1-10

A parable of the unworthy servant, unprofitable ones that are owned by God. He own everything of us, he owe us of nothing. Familiar systems of give and take may still be in our lives. Love to be loved, give to receive, work to be praised and paid handsomely can be part of our ethic. I’ll love you if-syndrome, encouraging people in keeping what we want from them, and the list goes on. Perhaps these are the things are very uncomfortable to mention, but one surprising thing I learnt from this book. They actually commented that thankfulness is actually a human response. Woah what a hard-hitting comment! I personally always think that thankfulness is appreciation what God have done in my life, or the things that God have allowed me, or called me to do. The duty of servanthood is actually not with divine expression of thankfulness, but it is a duty. A duty that comes with no special motivation for good but one that is common as breathing, eating and sleeping. It is also not serving a duty that helps us accumulate IOU from God. We are instead always in debt with HIM. How can we appreciate a work that is always in debt? A duty that is always of obedience? The answer is already given. Beyond duty to delight, an approach we can choose to adopt. Beyond the duty that we do to God who owns us, there is joy, with faith as is reward. As we do more of our duty to God, the more faith we cultivate and harvest. A faith knowing that God is in control of all, a God that owns us and know us well, a reward that accompany joy and delight that I, at this moment could say, only being it thru that one could fully understand what it fully truly means by beyond duty to delight. As much as we could serve and fulfil our duties with joy and delight, the unfinished tasks are usually faced in the gratitude for the finished gift of

Calvary

. A final question which I just like to bring forward is regarding the life of Job, someone that I always admire and imitated. In Job 1:9, KJV, Does Job fear God for nought? Which the real question is “Does Job fear God for God?” Using the same structure, I will try to ask, do we serve our duty for duty sake only? I am glad that now, I know what does duty means to me, duty just means a in very simple words that may not able to catch the whole spirit of it – doing for a friend called Jesus Christ who have already own us.

Finally, catching up my spiritual blog…with tons more to come…help help….help me lord….Learned some more stuff at Ps Ronald 144 regarding relationship, which will be shared when time allows and opportunity arise..

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