Volume 01, Issue 47: Serving and Loving it

There are things that you just love to do. It is not a coincidence. God intentionally wired you to love doing certain things. You are the way you are because you were made for specific functions.

Have you ever wondered why some animals hop, some run, some burrow, some swim, and some fly? God formed every creature on the earth with a special area of expertise. Each has a particular role to play, based on the way they were structured by God. The same is true with human beings. Each of us was uniquely designed to do certain things.

Physically, each of us has a unique heartbeat, just as we have unique thumbprints. In the same way, each of us has a unique emotional heartbeat that races when we think about the subjects, activities or circumstances that interest us. We instinctively care about some things and not about others. God designed each of us with a unique set of desires, hopes, interests, ambitions, affections, and dreams. These determine what we love to do.

There are subjects that you feel passionate about and others that you could care less about. For me, the subjects I am passionate about are on personal development, parenting, interior design, and a few others. These inborn interests are indications to my purpose. There is a reason you love to do certain things. Consider how you might use them to serve others and bring glory to your Maker who wired you to love doing them. The Bible repeatedly tells us to serve God with all our heart. Doesn’t this mean that God wants us to serve him passionately, and not dutifully? We cannot serve passionately at tasks we do not enjoy doing or feel passionate about. God’s expectation is that we use our natural interests to serve him and others.

You know you are serving from your heart when you are enthusiastic about a task and you look forward to doing it. When you are doing what you love to do, no one, and no form of reward or applause has to motivate you to do it. You do it out of sheer enjoyment.

When you do what God wired you to love to do, you get good at it. Passion drives perfection. You are unlikely to excel at a task that you don’t care about. The greatest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.

In what way can you passionately serve others and love it? Figure out what you love to do, what God gave you a passion for, and then do it for his glory. Serve in ways that best expresses your heart.

Lillian Chebosi