FAITH CAPSULE: With understanding, serve God to live life to the glory of God.

Exodus 7

All should understand that all is created to serve God.
He is a jealous God, and the antidote for jealousy is attention.
All should give attention to God by serving Him diligently, without continually staying away from Him.
God said in Exodus 7:16, “And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!” Exodus 8:1, “And the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” ‘ ” 
Understand that serving God is to be seeking God; one who seeks God will be seeing Him in His word. 
Among ways of serving God are: Living life to please Him; being separated from sin; and praying to God continually.
With understanding, one serves God by living life to please Him, not to be pleasing the world.
Enoch pleased God as Hebrews 11:5-6 records,“By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Serving God is seeking God.” 
Please God to reap the reward of pleasing God. 
Proverbs 16:7 records, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 
Understand, strive to be separated from sin because, with sin, no man can see God. 
3 John 1:11, “Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” Sin is not of God, not serving God.
Serving God is seeking God in prayer continually to maintain constant communication with God.
Daniel had a life that made prayer his custom since his early days. (Daniel 6:10) 
When Daniel was in the den of lions, King Darius, who did not know God, called out to Daniel as Daniel 6:20 records,“And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
Daniel served God prayerfully, praying continually before God, and no evil could touch his life. Serve God to live life to the glory of God.
Be honest to yourself before God by Living life to please Him; to be separated from sin; to be praying to God continually.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to know and live a life of seeking Him diligently.