Theme: IS IT VAIN TO SERVE GOD?
INTRODUCTION
Considering the numerous challenges plaguing mankind in this age, ranging from natural disasters to unemployment, wars, diseases, unpaid/delayed wages and man’s inhumanity to fellow man, etc., many people are getting the more frustrated. Among believers, some are despondent to God and His worship. Like the Prophet Job, whatever may be the setbacks in our lives, the latter end promises to be better by the grace of God (Job 42:10, 12) so that in the long run, God’s children would realize, and appreciate this age-long assertion that it is not vain to serve God.
Text: “Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?” – Malachi 3:14.
Comment: Some people see the worship of God as vain because of the glamours of life they enjoy and they treat with disdain those who are devoted to God’s service as stated in today’s key text. Like the Psalmist, sometimes, it is difficult not to notice, and perhaps, admire, the prosperity, ease and glamour of individuals who have no space for God in their affairs. Not only do they live long, they have the best this life has to offer. (Malachi 3:15, 16; Psalm 73:2-9) Where one is not guided by the spirit of God, one begins to wonder if God ever takes account of his or her sincere efforts in trying to keep oneself pure before God. (Psalm 73:16-19) The Lord will never desert those who serve Him in truth and place their trust in Him and surely, the end of the wicked is shame and doom. – Malachi 3:17, 18; Isaiah 49:15, 16.
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