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 and 5-04-2022

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