Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into His presence with singing! Psalm 100:2
“To worship God means to serve Him. There are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for Him that He needs to have done — run errands for Him, carry messages for Him, fight on His side, feed His lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for Him that you need to do — sing songs for Him, create beautiful things for Him, give things up for Him, tell Him what is on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in Him and make a fool of yourself for Him the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love.”
Frederick Buechner in Celtic Daily Prayer (New York: Harper Collins, 2002) 630.
Buechner shows his brilliance here. We do things for God that shape the world around us, and we do things for us in our service that shape us into the people God wants us to be and become.
Notice one of the acts we need to do is to “give things up” for Him. When we do this, our hands are free to take hold of Him, which is the posture we need to have to be conduits of generosity.
On this Saturday, ask yourself two questions: What do I need to do for God that He needs to have done today? And, what do I need to do for God that I need to do?