The times demand better spiritual healing. To attain it, we shall have to gain a more enlightened faith. And this means a more unselfed desire to serve God.
In the seventeenth chapter of Luke, Christ Jesus answers the disciples' request, "Increase our faith."Luke 17:5; He promises first that if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, we can tell a sycamore tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it will obey. But he does not stop there. He points out that a servant is expected to obey his master. And he says, "Doth he [the master] thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not." And he continues, "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do." vv. 9, 10;
A study of Jesus' words tells us that the unprofitable servant in this context is one who serves God with no thought of what God will give him. He obeys God's commands because he loves Him. Although he trusts God implicitly to take care of his needs, he does not do God's work with his own needs in mind.
