Blessings of a Life of Divine Service

UV 1261/10,000 Blessings of a Life of Divine Service

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Exodus 23 v 25


To serve the Lord implies to pledge an unswerving allegiance, a commitment to the Lord for life of all that we are and do and have. To serve the Lord means that we know we do not deserve His love or attention. To serve the Lord is to reverence His holy name and respect His holy person. To serve the Lord is to diligently listen to His voice, to store His Word in our hearts, to run it over and over in our minds, to do that which He commands, to live in accordance with His counsel. To serve the Lord is to give top priority to God in our lives. To make our lives an altar, our praise, worship and thanksgiving a constant offering. TO serve the Lord means that we need to combine a head that thinks with a heart that feels and hands that help others.


Health is a free but precious gift of God. A servant is entitled to his wages. When we serve God faithfully, we are paid the wages of good health. When a person pleases a king, he gives a gift as a token of his being pleased with that person. Similarly, when we please the Lord with our attitudes towards Him and our actions flowing from those attitudes, as a token of His pleasure, He blesses our bread and water. He causes it to multiply to meet every need. He causes it to be wholesome and health-inducing. He takes away sickness from our midst.

When we daily imbibe the water of life that is the Word of God and eat of the spiritual bread, our health and our internal organs are blessed. The Word of God is “ God-breathed”. It is the oxygen of God that He blows on us to induce health and blessing. I can testify that in the past thousand two hundred days I have barely fallen ill as I daily dwelt on the Word in the course of writing the uni-verse. Scripture says that “none of the diseases that plagued Egypt will affect us.” God uses a scientific method to convince human beings of His goodness. When we observe the lives of the people who do not care about God or even we ourselves before we committed to serving God, we find a recurring pattern of sickness and misfortune. They are like control experiments to show us the value of faith. When we spend time in prayer, the Holy Spirit reminds us that so many hapless people spend time and money on unhappy things like the ICU, courts,post mortems, hospitals and prisons while we are preserved from these and that we should be thankful and not take these blessings for granted or lightly. Our faith acts as an invisible shield against invisible weapons like bacteria, viruses and the like. The Word acts as a powerful and effective disinfectant, antibiotic and antiseptic. It not only negates diseases but it induces and produces health, vitality and well being in us. Our spirits are invigorated, rejuvenated. Our minds and bodies are renewed and strengthened.

Prateep V Philip