If
our experience with the Living God really increases our intimacy with
him, like it's meant to, then it will also increase our desire to
serve others for free. (Service to others that's not free, that comes
with strings attached, isn't service. It's employment.)
Mark
8:34 says, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and
take up his cross and follow me.” Denying ourselves means saying no
to our pleasures and preferences. Taking up our cross means willingly
enduring the suffering we have the power to avoid, like Jesus did.
That's
where experiencing God, when it's walked out rightly, takes us.
Greater humility, greater service to the people around us, and it's
all worth it for the greater intimacy with him. When you're in love,
spending time with him makes it worth it.
Our
God-experience is a license to serve, not a badge of spiritual
superiority.
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