If someone gave you a million dollars, how would you thank them?
There's plenty of stories about people entering lives in ordained service because they made promises to God when they were sick or desperate and found their prayers answered. I don't think God works like a vending machine, where if you deposit a promise you get your prayer answered as you want, but if you make such a promise to God, then you should probably keep it. It's a much harder thing to simply make your request and say, "Thy will be done," but I think that's how Jesus calls us to pray.
Either way, when something dramatic happens in our life as a gift, we want to say thank you. Here, Simon's mother-in-law is healed, and she begins to serve. That's her way of saying thank you. And perhaps it best reflects what our natural state is -- when released from whatever binds us, we begin to serve.
So when we reflect on all the things that God has done for us, we should naturally begin to serve. That should be our orientation. It tells me that heaven is a place of service, because we've been restored, so we serve one another as our way of saying thank you.
How can you practice that today? Who can you serve?
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