However, in the seventh year, the law said that you had to be set free. But if you turn back when you were released and said 'Masters, I am not serving you because I have to but because I want to', 'then your master took you before the judge and pierced your ear, signifying that you belong to him forever; that you were committed to listening to him and obeying him'. Exodus 21:6.
Today pray that, 'Lord, I am not serving You because I have to but because I want to. Pierce my ears, Mark me as Yours, bond me together with You so that I can never belong to another.
When Ministry losses its passion, it becomes an empty profession. The very word 'minister' is a verb and not just a noun. It's what you do, not what you claim to be. The word 'servant' also refers to a third - level galley slave chained to an Oar on a Roman ship.
Day and night you rowed to the drumbeat of the ship's master, whether you were in a battle or in merchant service. And you expected to die chained to that Oar. What a picture!
It's what Paul had in mind when he wrote: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12v1). When you think of what Christ has done for you, is it too much to ask?
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