SERVING WITH HUMILITY

SERVING WITH HUMILITY


We live at a TIME
When many people think
The world REVOLVES around them


I hate to say that
But I do BELIEVE it is TRUE


But when we READ of the story
Of John and James and their mother=
MAYBE it was true=just as well=
Two thousand years ago


“COMMAND that these two
SONS of mine=sit


ONE at your right
And the other at your left
IN YOUR KINGDOM” Matthew 20:21


What an AWKWARD SCENE=this
Mother=of James and John=
Is on a MISSION=pushing for them
To SIT with Jesus=
WHEN he comes into his KINGDOM


I WONDER how the other apostles felt=
And how EMBARASSING it must have been
For James and John


James and John's mother WASTES no times
PUSHING for them=and she doesn't care
IF she is pushy


But Jesus sets them STRAIGHT=
There will be NO JOCKEYING
For position in his kingdom


The LAST will be first
He tells us=SERVING WITH HUMILITY


“Wisdom's instruction
Is to FEAR the Lord


And HUMILITY
Comes before honor” Proverbs 15:33


“I SERVED the Lord
With great HUMILITY


And with tears
And in the MIDST
Of severe testing


By the plots
Of my JEWISH opponents” Acts 20:19


“Do NOTHING
Out of selfish ambition
Or vain conceit


Rather in HUMILITY
Value OTHERS above yourselves


NOT looking to your own interest
But each of you
To the interests
Of the OTHERS” Philippians 2:3-4


SERVING WITH HUMILITY
Put God and put others ABOVE yourself=
LIVE the two commandments
Of God and Jesus


We are all SPECIAL in
The EYES of God=and we
Are all EQUAL


Our mission is NOT to sit
At the right hand and left hand
Of God=but our COLLECTIVE MISSION
Is to SERVE each other
With HUMILITY


May our mission be to be LAST=but
FIRST in SERVING OTHERS


“But many who are first
Will be LAST


And many who are last
Will be first” Matthew 19:30


“For in the gospel
The RIGHTEOUSNESS of God
Is revealed


A righteousness that is BY FAITH
From first to last


Just as it is written
The righteousness
Will be by FAITH” Romans 1:17


Dear Lord=we pray that we have the FAITH
To LIVE by=
SERVING WITH HUMILITY


Without regard to WHERE
We will sit=in your KINGDOM


In Jesus' name and in the name of our HEAVENLY FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
2-27-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Gail Goleas