Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee,
exalted for thee or brought low for thee.
A spirit of true relationship with God includes our willingness to stand and serve wherever it is that God has placed us. Closely related to the third part of Wesley's prayer, we should be ready to be fully employed for God or recognize those times when it is best we not serve. Along with that we should know that sometimes our employment and service might bring recognition and thanks for what we have done as God's servants; other times we will be ignored and our service and work not even be noticed. Regardless, God's Spirit in us should help us whatever the circumstances or feelings we have; we have done and served as asked by God.
Our humanness at times makes us seek the best and highest for ourselves. We want the key jobs or tasks, and along with it we want the corner office that goes with that. Some even want the biggest paycheck; but it is not about that. It is our willingness to be faithful to God and God's call upon our lives. Our motivation should be obedience to God, not the reward. Our fuel in servanthood to God should be love and nothing else.
PRAYER: Loving God, you know my heart; make right whatever is not geared toward serving You and Yours. Cleanse my mind and thought so that I can fully and truly pray, "I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt. Put me to doing, put me to suffering. Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee, exalted for thee or brought low for thee." I pray all these things in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.
