Today I was reading in Zechariah 7. The people came to God and asked if they should weep, fast, and mourn during the fifth month as they had done so for many years.

The way God answered them cut straight to my heart this morning....

"When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month, and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?" Zechariah 7:5

The things that I do each day..the things that I would say I do that are good, and holy, and true...Is it for Him that I do them?

Or is it for Kristi?

I think it can be so easy to glide from one motivation to the other.

So easy one might not even notice.

Whether it is teaching, preaching, changing diapers, hosting gatherings, cleaning, serving, playing broomball...It is for Him that I do them?

Today I pray that the Holy Spirit will show me the selfishness and pride in my life and in my service.

Not only that, but I pray He will keep my heart pricked in a way that I stay aware of the danger of serving myself as opposed to Him.