Serve the Lord with Gladness: Psalm 100-Supplication through the Scriptures
Serve the Lord with Gladness Psalm 100 Here in the South, we have a chain of fast food restaurants where the customer service is expected to be the best. Its employees are trained to reply to the customers’ requests with, “My pleasure!” Our response in our service to the Lord wherever He has placed us should be in our hearts, “It’s my pleasure, Lord!” In 2 Corinthians 12:15, Paul tells the Corinthians, “I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” In essence he tells them that it is his pleasure to be spent, be expended, or exhaust himself for the benefit of their souls. This is not the only place Paul communicates the idea that he is glad and rejoices to serve others, even at the expense of himself. To the Philippians he said, “Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all” (2:17). And to the Thessalonians: “So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not on...