Day 266 – Serving comes before being served, and Humility comes before honor.
Today’s Reading: Matthew 19 – 21
Matthew 20:26-28 “Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Every day there is someone trying to control me, someone trying to push authority on top of me, trying to prove they are more important than me. The world would tell me to fight back, to prove myself, but Jesus example says to listen and not engage, to lay down my ego for His sake.
From the time a child is mobile they are told to be first, to win the race at all costs, to always get out ahead, and to be number 1. As the child grows these ideals are continually enforced until they reach adulthood. In the meantime, they’ve lost great friends and family relationships all because they were told to be better than those around them.
However, this way of thinking and being could be just a memory of the past if we would just teach our children how to model Christ’s example by living a life full of humility. If we would constantly lift up and encourage others and look to the ways we can help instead of being helped, we will be laying down our ego and selfish desires for the work of the Lord.
The world has it a bit backwards, living out life opposite of Christ. He came to serve instead of being served. He did His best not to BE the BEST but because He was working for His Father in Heaven. He won the war not because He fought the Hardest, but because He laid down His life for all of us. Don’t live out your life to BE the BEST, live your life the BEST you can so that Christ is Honored in all you do. When we humble ourselves He will lift us up. And that is how you become the BEST in the eyes of the one that Matters!
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