How do you serve G-d?

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I know there’s a difference between serving G-d and your neighbor but I don’t know what serving G-d is about? I mean how can you serve G-d?? I know you can help your neighbor but does it go hand in hand, I don’t get it. Please enlighten me and if you have scripture that’s great. So if you help widows and orphans is that serving G-d? Yeah right cause Jesus says what you did to the least of these you did unto me. I got confused over an apparition message which because of rules I cannot place here.
 
theotikos said:
I know there’s a difference between serving G-d and your neighbor but I don’t know what serving G-d is about? I mean how can you serve G-d?? I know you can help your neighbor but does it go hand in hand, I don’t get it. Please enlighten me and if you have scripture that’s great. So if you help widows and orphans is that serving G-d? Yeah right cause Jesus says what you did to the least of these you did unto me. I got confused over an apparition message which because of rules I cannot place here.
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When you serve your neighbour in Charity (or Christian love), you are also serving God.
As and when you show acts of kindness to others, you are actually exhibiting the love of God and being a mirror of Christ’s glory. Serving others is an indirect means of serving God, but one can also serve Him directly in forms of worship in the Mass, in personal devotions/prayers etc.

The most important thing is the intention behind your actions, as no one can say for you that your actions are an act of glorifying God, because it would have to depend on your motive for doing it (e.g do I do it to gain favour from my friends or to be a witness to Jesus) and the fruit it produces.

God bless you!
 
sapphire778 said:
When you serve your neighbour in Charity (or Christian love), you are also serving God.
As and when you show acts of kindness to others, you are actually exhibiting the love of God and being a mirror of Christ’s glory. Serving others is an indirect means of serving God, but one can also serve Him directly in forms of worship in the Mass, in personal devotions/prayers etc.

The most important thing is the intention behind your actions, as no one can say for you that your actions are an act of glorifying God, because it would have to depend on your motive for doing it (e.g do I do it to gain favour from my friends or to be a witness to Jesus) and the fruit it produces.

God bless you!
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Ok thanks so much Sapphire. And G-d bless you too!
 
In one sense, the ONLY way you can serve God is to serve your neighbour. God doesn’t need anything from us, so the test He has set us is how we will serve Christ in the form of the “least of these my brothers”. By becoming human, and “drawing all men to Himself”, He has made the "least of these my brothers’ His proxy on earth.

I’ve said ad infinitum that the night my father died, he appeared in my room. At one stage I got very angry about the way he’d deliberately wrecked my vocational aptitudes, which he had. But he commented, “it’s not even important!”, which was an insight he could see from where he was. In other words our careers and status in society are, in God’s eyes, unimportant. We think they’re important, but He doesn’t. “What men think wise is foolishness in God’s eyes” as Paul wrote.

When I responded, “Then what is important”, my father’s apparition replied, “How you treat other people”. It appears that will be one of the main litmus tests that all of us will be subject to. How we served our neighbour will be a critical area when we face our own judgement, for that is how God will judge whether we’ve served Him or not.
 
theotikos said:
I know there’s a difference between serving G-d and your neighbor but I don’t know what serving G-d is about? I mean how can you serve G-d?? I know you can help your neighbor but does it go hand in hand, I don’t get it. Please enlighten me and if you have scripture that’s great. So if you help widows and orphans is that serving G-d? Yeah right cause Jesus says what you did to the least of these you did unto me. I got confused over an apparition message which because of rules I cannot place here.
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Why do you write G-d instead of God. We are not prohibited from saying God!!
 
Bob_Crowley said:
In one sense, the ONLY way you can serve God is to serve your neighbour. God doesn’t need anything from us, so the test He has set us is how we will serve Christ in the form of the “least of these my brothers”. By becoming human, and “drawing all men to Himself”, He has made the "least of these my brothers’ His proxy on earth.

I’ve said ad infinitum that the night my father died, he appeared in my room. At one stage I got very angry about the way he’d deliberately wrecked my vocational aptitudes, which he had. But he commented, “it’s not even important!”, which was an insight he could see from where he was. In other words our careers and status in society are, in God’s eyes, unimportant. We think they’re important, but He doesn’t. “What men think wise is foolishness in God’s eyes” as Paul wrote.

When I responded, “Then what is important”, my father’s apparition replied, “How you treat other people”. It appears that will be one of the main litmus tests that all of us will be subject to. How we served our neighbour will be a critical area when we face our own judgement, for that is how God will judge whether we’ve served Him or not.
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Thank you Bob for sharing your story. Yes I also came to that knowledge however I still fall short, I have a knee jerk reaction problem but for the most part I am obliging and compassionate as I can be. Since I realized that we will be judged by the law of love I have come to realize how little we actually do it, or how little I am treated with love by strangers, sometimes by family members who say they have an excuse. However I forgive them and I’m sure they have forgiven me for I am not perfect. Speaking of which the mercy we have shown to others will be given back to us as well. Thank you for the reminder. I also needed to hear what you wrote about “what men think wise is foolishness in G-d’s eyes” because I have been asking for G-d’s favor on my ventures but I would like to serve Him in return and I feel a total dependance on His favor or will that is. Thanks! great post.
 
theotikos said:
Thistile we are just talking about how to serve G-d not how I choose to spell His holy name.
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God is not his name. God is who he is.
Why do you deliberately mis-spell the word God as G-d. That is certainly not a teaching or instruction of the Church.
Why are you embarrassed to tell us?
 

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I know there’s a difference between serving G-d and your neighbor but I don’t know what serving G-d is about? I mean how can you serve G-d??​

Hi,
St. John said “how can you love God whom you do not see, if you don’t love your neighbor whom you do see.”

This equates the two into one. However, each of us and God has a distinct existence. So that means we can direct our behavior to G-d alone thru our prayers and actions.

Postulation on the floor adoring G-d.
Talking to G-d . “I love You.”
Observing the Sabboth in a holy fashion.
Praising his Holy Name and offering Him worship.
Offering Him our personal sacrifices and crosses He sends us.
Making acts of reparation to His Holy Name and Presence.
The first 3 commandments.
The virtues of faith, hope, and charity may be directed to G-d.
(and more)
These we do together or alone, in public or in private.

The greatest ----- The Most Holy Mass, His Sacrifice of Love to the Father
 
theotikos said:
I know there’s a difference between serving G-d and your neighbor but I don’t know what serving G-d is about? I mean how can you serve G-d?? I know you can help your neighbor but does it go hand in hand, I don’t get it. Please enlighten me and if you have scripture that’s great. So if you help widows and orphans is that serving G-d? Yeah right cause Jesus says what you did to the least of these you did unto me. I got confused over an apparition message which because of rules I cannot place here.
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In my case, I would guess that I serve God when in prayer. LOTH and all that. I serve my neighbors in many ways, but the main way is as a sober member of AA, helping other alcoholics. 🙂

And I am sure my love of animals, created by God, counts for something:D
 
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