"What do we get out of serving God? We don’t get immediate justice or fairness. We don’t get constant ease and comfort. We are not guaranteed good health or happy marriages or compliant children. We are not assured of peaceable relationships or material prosperity.
Ultimately, we serve God because he is God, not because we assume we will get certain benefits. To be sure we do get benefits, not least of which is eternal life with God himself. But more immediately, there might be no ‘pay off’ for serving God. If we insist on such immediate benefits we might be disappointed. Maybe this is one reason why many seem to give up on the faith: it hasn’t ‘worked’, it hasn’t given them what they were expecting." - David Reay
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