Acting Unto God

"In service we engage our goods and strength in the active promotion of the good of others and the causes of God in our world. [We] may also serve others to train ourselves away from arrogance, possessiveness, envy, resentment or covetousness. In that case service is undertaken as a discipline for the spiritual life. Service is the high road to freedom from bondage to other people. We cease to be "manpleasers," for we are acting unto God in our lowliest deeds" (Dallas Willard in The Spirit of the Disciplines).