March 26 | Servant
Read Mark 9:30-50
“Who is the best?” You gotta love the disciples. Despite spending SO MUCH TIME with Jesus, they just keep missing the point. Perhaps they were feeling inadequate after their inability to cast out the demon in the young boy they had just encountered, or didn’t want to spend too much time thinking about what Jesus said about how he was going to die.
Whatever the reason, they were talking about who is the greatest and Jesus, once again, has to adjust their understanding of greatness.
In His Kingdom, greatness is different. Greatness is about service. About being the least. About washing feet and taking up a cross.
This goes against the grain of most societies. Greatness in the world’s eyes is often found in being served. But in God’s Kingdom, greatness is in serving. Like Jesus. Laying down your life for the sake of others. Like Jesus.
Today, take some time to confess where you have been drawn to the world’s ideas about what it means to be great. Ask Jesus to help you be like Him- to serve and to lay down yourself for the sake of others.