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To: Kathy in Alaska

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True Greatness

January 20, 2014

Read: Mark 10:35-45

Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. —Mark 10:43
Bible in a Year:
Genesis 49-50; Matthew 13:31-58

Some people feel like a small pebble lost in the immensity of a canyon. But no matter how insignificant we judge ourselves to be, we can be greatly used by God.

In a sermon early in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Jesus’ words from Mark 10 about servanthood. Then he said, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. . . . You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”

When Jesus’ disciples quarreled about who would get the places of honor in heaven, He told them: “Whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:43-45).

I wonder about us. Is that our understanding of greatness? Are we gladly serving, doing tasks that may be unnoticed? Is the purpose of our serving to please our Lord rather than to gain applause? If we are willing to be a servant, our lives will point to the One who is truly great.

No service in itself is small,
None great, though earth it fill;
But that is small that seeks its own,
And great that does God’s will. —Anon.
Little things done in Christ’s name are great things.



19 posted on 01/19/2014 5:40:03 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: The Mayor

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.


35 posted on 01/19/2014 6:22:38 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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