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“For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption” Acts 13:36<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A portion of Matthew Henry’s comments on this are as follows:<\/p>\n

“David was a great blessing to the age wherein he lived; he was the servant of his generation: many are the curse, and plague, and burden of their generation. Even those that are in a lower and narrower sphere must look upon it that they live to serve their generation; and those that will do good in the world must make themselves servants of all, (1Co 9:19). We were not born for ourselves, but are members of communities, to which we must study to be serviceable.” ~ Matthew Henry<\/p>\n

In my Bible, I have written beside the above verse – “Am I<\/span> spending my life serving my generation by the will of God?”<\/p>\n

I believe a heart that desires to serve will\u00a0find opportunities to do so. They will not wait for\u00a0“bigger doors” to open\u00a0while brushing aside the seemingly “small” tasks. I have heard it said, “bloom where you are planted” and those with a servant’s heart will do just that as they seek to serve in whatever capacity\u00a0they are able. I like the following quote:<\/p>\n

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.” ~ D.L. Moody<\/p>\n

The age in which we are living is our generation. In what ways would God have us serve today?<\/p>\n

~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n

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“For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption” Acts 13:36 A portion of Matthew Henry’s comments on this are as follows: “David was a great blessing to the age wherein he lived; he was the servant of his generation: many are the curse, and plague, and burden of their generation. Even those that are in a lower and narrower sphere must look upon it that they live to serve their generation; and those that will do good in the world must make themselves servants of all, (1Co 9:19). We were not born for ourselves, but are members of communities, to which we must study to be serviceable.” ~ Matthew Henry In my Bible, I have written beside the above verse – “Am I spending my life serving my generation by the will of God?” I believe a heart that desires to serve will\u00a0find opportunities to do so. They will not wait for\u00a0“bigger doors” to open\u00a0while brushing aside the seemingly “small” tasks. I have heard it said, “bloom where you are planted” and those with a servant’s heart will do just that as they seek to serve in whatever capacity\u00a0they are able. I like the following quote: “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.” ~ D.L. Moody The age in which we are living is our generation. In what ways would God have us serve today? ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-will","category-quotes","category-serving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o6C2-serving","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}