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Many are serving God, only few are rendering acceptable services, what a waste of time! What a waste of effort. It is equivalent to shouting without being heard, or fetching buckets of water into a basket. Foolishness, you will say? Yeah, utter foolishness is it, to render unacceptable service.
How then can your service be made acceptable
1.    Make your life acceptable
    If your life is contemptible your service will be abominable. If your life does not please him, your sacrifice cannot be a well pleasing one.
    Genesis 4: 5,7
    And the Lord said unto Cain, ... if thou DOEST well, shalt     thou not be accepted?
Until you do well, your sacrifice, your service remains rejected.
    Isaiah 1: 10, 11a
    Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear     unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
    To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me..."

If Sodom, the city of iniquities is still your abode all your services are in vain. Present yourself as a living sacrifice to God, be born again and begin to walk righteously with the most HIGH then shall your services be acceptable.
2.    Serve wholeheartedly
    Serve God with your whole being. Put your heart into your service. Where your heart is, that is where your treasure will come from. Until you are totally involved, you cannot be truly commended.
    Hosea 10:2
    Their heart is divided, now shall they be found faulty...
If your heart is divided, your service will be faulted.
    Deuteronomy 10:12
    And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of  thee,
    ... but to ... serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Whole hearted service is God's requirement, anything lesser in unacceptable.