Serve Him with Gladness

Scripture repeatedly admonishes and exhorts us to serve the Lord. The very fact that the Word of God always exhorts us to do this implies a fact which we cannot very well escape or ignore.  It implies that we don’t do that and are not of ourselves inclined to do that.  Scripture paints a very black picture when it describes the natural man to us.  And we have only to consider our daily experiences to realize that all that Scripture says of us, as we are by nature, is true.  There is so little...