Have to? Need to? Or WANT to?

BIBLE MEDITATION:

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9:19

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

There are three reasons for being obedient:

A slave obeys because he has to.

An employee obeys because he needs to.

But a loving son obeys because he wants to.

So many of us live like slaves, obeying out of obligation, when Jesus has said, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father, I have made known unto you” (John 15:15).

ACTION POINT:

I don’t work for my salvation—that work has been done by my Lord. But I will work like any slave for the love of God. What about you?

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers