In addition to the post on "Serve as Slave" on April of this year (http://palmeichung.blogspot.in/2015/04/serve-as-slave.html), the Lord re-spoke the same thing again. This time with deeper understanding on the truth part and on the experience part as well.
The motive of serving the Lord as slave is because of love. I serve God because I love God.
Exo. 21:5-6 - But if the servant plainly says, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; Then his master shall bring him to God and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
The only pure motive and pure way to serve God is because of love for God and His church and His saints. So because of love, one gives up himself by offering his body as a "living sacrifice" a reasonable service to God (Romans 12:1) with the Lord Jesus as a pattern in Philipians 2:5-9.
These matter touched me so much so that I studied the truth over and over again and wrote a hymn on it. Later, I shared these to the brothers who serve with me in the office and also in the coordination in the Lord's move here. This very hymn is a source of encouragement to me even as I sang the same hymn to myself as to the Lord.
These matter touched me so much so that I studied the truth over and over again and wrote a hymn on it. Later, I shared these to the brothers who serve with me in the office and also in the coordination in the Lord's move here. This very hymn is a source of encouragement to me even as I sang the same hymn to myself as to the Lord.
Prayer and Consecration : Serve as Slave
Dated : 19th July 2015
Touched and impressed by the Lord's speaking again and again on the truth concerning serving as slave, after an in-depth study of the truth, this hymn was composed.
Tune : #1043 “Be in Time!”
Meter : 7.7.7.3 with chorus
Time: 4/4- D Major
(Exodus 21:5,6)
1 Master, we love Thee o'er all:
We love Thy church, Thy household,
We love Thy saints, Thou begot.
We love Thee!
In love we'll not go out free,
But at Thy door we'll stand be,
Only to listen to Thee.
O Master!
O Master! O Master!
We love Thee and choose to serve Thee, O Master!
Bring us to Thy presence dear,
To heed to Thee, bore our ear,
That we serve Thee forever,
O Master!
(Philippians 2:5-9)
2 Jesus Christ, the Slave-Savior:
God incarnate, emptied all,
Humbled on this earthly ball.
Slave-Savior!
Found in fashion as a man,
Unto death e'en obedient,
Death of a cross for all man.
Slave-Savior!
Slave-Savior! Slave-Savior!
Save us from ourself to serve Thee, Slave-Savior!
Imitating Thy pattern
In life, and in spirit burn,
To serve Thee, our sole concern,
Slave-Savior!
(Matthew 24:45)
3 Make us faithful, prudent slave:
Faithful in things great and small,
Faithful towards Thee in all.
Faithful Slave!
Prudent towards all Thy saint;
Wise in dealing all affair,
Timely feeding, proper care.
Prudent Slave!
O Master! O Master!
Make us faithful and prudent slave, Master!
Faithful to Thee in all things,
Prudent to saints in feeding
Healthy food and perfecting,
All Thy saints!
(Philippians 2:5,17; 1 Corinthians 4:1, 6-13; 9:19)
4 Savior, save us from ourself:
In love to serve Thee as slave
With spirit of sacrifice.
Serve as Slave!
No rights claiming of our own,
No pride, boasting, opinion,
But humble and obedient.
Serve as Slave!
Serve as Slave! Serve as Slave!
Make this our reality, Master!
Grace us spirit of service,
Grace us spirit of a slave,
Grace us spirit (of) sacrifice,
O Master!
(2 Corinthians 5:14-15, Romans 14:7,8)
5 The love of Christ constraints us
To live to Christ ever thus,
To serve Thee, Christ, till breath lasts.
To live Christ!
All we are, and have, will be,
Our spirit, soul and body,
For Thee, to live unto Thee,
We offer!
(Romans 12:1)
O Master, we offer!
Willingly, we offer up our body.
As a living sacrifice,
Paying our life as a price
For Thy eternal plan-wise,
We offer!
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