Serving God

Serving God According Revelation by Faith

The book of Genesis reveals God's heart's desire for man to receive Him as food and drink, and thus being satisfied with God will issue in serving Him according to God and His revelation. Sandwiched between the rivers and the tree of life is man to work on the garden of Eden and keep it. This is the principle God set up for man to serve God.

The source of our service is God Himself. It is imperative for man to partake of God first to be able to serve. 

Gn 2:10And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.
Gn 2:11The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Gn 2:12And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
Gn 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Cush.
Gn 2:14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one that goes east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 

Gn 2:15And Jehovah God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

Gn 2:16And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely,
Gn 2:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Rv 22:3And there will no longer be a curse. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His slaves will serve Him; 

Jn 4:14But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life. 

Jn 4:34Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

All spiritual service begins with revelation. The revelation is that God desires to satisfy man first by feeding Him with Himself as food and drink, so that man can serve Him. Violation of this principle set up by God will result in spiritual death. For this reason, the sabbath rest commanded by God in the Old Testament demands man to enjoy God as rest first, else the judgment of violation is death. For this very reason, many servants of God face spiritual death due to a lack of revelation.

Is 30:15For thus says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you will be saved; In quietness and in trust will be your strength; But you were not willing.

Examples of serving according to the natural man:

Uzzah's Hand: The Ark of God was to be carried by the serving priests, but a non-priest carried the Ark here.

2S 6:3And they set the Ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2S 6:7And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and he died there by the Ark of God.

Ananias and Sapphira: 

Ac 5:1But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property

Ac 5:2And put aside for himself some of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it. And he brought some part of it and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Ac 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to deceive the Holy Spirit and to put aside for yourself some of the proceeds of the land?

Ac 5:4While it remained, was it not your own? And when it was sold, was it not under your authority? Why is it that you have contrived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.

Ac 5:5And when Ananias heard these words, he fell down and expired; and great fear came upon all those who heard this.

The difficult situation is the real test of the serving ones. Even without the test, do we still use Uzzah's hand and act deceitfully like Ananias and Sapphira? Be reminded of Uzzah's hand and never act naturally even in times of difficulties. May the Lord be able to gain a testimony among us that is pure. That we may serve the Lord by faith trusting in Him and never do anything without faith. 

1Ti 1:4Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God’s economy, which is in faith.

Rm 14:23But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not out of faith; for all that is not out of faith is sin.

Seeing that we are not and that God is all, will keep us in rest and allow the great I Am to work in us and through us. This will cause faith to rise up within us; we will be resting and enjoying the Lord as the tree of life and the river of life. Thereby, enabling us to serve according to this revelation.

Lord, grace us to serve You according to revelation and in faith all the days of our lives.