Are You a Useful Servant?

Ever have one of those days (or weeks) where you don't feel like you're adding any value?  When maybe you just don't feel like you've done anything worthwhile and yet others around you seem to be accomplishing much?

God wants us to be "successful" in our Christian lives - He wants us to add value!  But our "success" or "value" is not measured as the world measures success - it is measured by God's standards.  Here are a few examples: 

      

Romans 15:14

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  
Paul, talking to the believers, encouraged them, that they were filled with the Holy Spirit and able to "admonish" or counsel one another.  Now, lest you think you are not able to "counsel" anyone, hold on - look at this next verse...

2 Corinthians 1:4

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Ah - see?  It can be as simple as comforting someone who is going through something you've already experienced - you CAN counsel!  Share how God worked in your life though a similar circumstance.  Have you done that this week?  Comforted someone?  Shared a verse that is dear to you with someone?  Sent a note of encouragement; let someone know you are praying for them?


If you have, then you HAVE been successful this week - you HAVE added value.  Do not measure your "success" by the world's standards - measure your "success" by God's standards.  This is a simple thing; if you haven't done this yet this week, purpose in your heart to do it before the week is over.  You CAN be a useful servant!