Many people think that serving God has to do with serving in church ministries. This is why many will see full-time church ministry as a high calling.
I have spoken to some where they felt they were 'special' to be called into full-time church ministry. They don't say it directly with their mouths, but their conversations and thoughts revealed that.
Nowhere can you find this in the Bible in the New Testament.
In Malachi 2-3, God was rebuking the priests of Israel. They were serving in the Temple. They were full-time ministers. They were preaching, teaching and doing the works of the ministry. But in God's eyes, they were NOT serving Him. Because there was no fear of the Lord in them.
Yet God's eyes were among those who feared Him.
Then 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. The 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦. Then once more 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 between the righteous and the wicked, 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦. - Mal 3:16-18
Today, you can be busy serving in church ministries. No matter how much you do, you are not serving Him if there is no fear of the Lord in you.
What God is looking for is the fear (reverent awe) of Him in what you say and do. To Him, this is serving Him.
In other words, in whatever secular work or church work you are doing, you are serving God when you walk in the fear of the Lord.
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