Reason 1

REASON I.

We are to serve God, because God has made us. The argument with which Paul persuaded Philemon to receive a run-away servant of his own, was that in (Philippians 1:19): You owe to me even your own self. By that argument should each one of us be persuaded to become a dutiful servant of the Lord: We owe to him even our own selves. Man! [illegible] most fit thing that your Maker should be your Master.

There are two questions which I hope every child within these walls can give some right answer to. The answer to them will render it unquestionable, that you and I are to serve God for ever.

One question is, By whom were you made?

We have an answer to this, in (Psalm 100:3): Know you, that the Lord, he is God, and it is He that has made us, and not we ourselves. Thus the Psalmist does once argue, O come, let us worship before the Lord our maker. Why? If he be our Maker, He is to be the object of our service. And this the rather, because of another question, which is, For what were you made? We have an answer to this in (Isaiah 43:21): This people have I formed for my self, they shall show forth my praise. When we praise God, we serve God. Why, this is the very business which we were sent into the world upon. We had never appeared in the rank of actual beings if God had not propounded some service to be done to Himself, by creatures of our shape and mould. We are created by God and endowed by him. What could it be for, but this? That God may have some service from us. It is said in (Acts 17:28): In him we live and move and have our being. Most absurd shall we be, if it be not for Him too.