Thursday, December 5, 2013

ADVENTure Day 4 –
Most of you know that I fix copiers for a living.  Come Christmas Eve, most of us techs hope to have service calls to go on.  Most do not.  Therefore, we hang out around the shop and do menial tasks like mopping, cleaning windows, and setting up tables and chairs for the annual Christmas Eve party.  I will admit, I do not like doing the menial tasks.
In Mark 9:33-37, Jesus explains how wrong my attitude is.  His disciples have been arguing about which of them is greater.  He explains that the greatest is the least, and servant to all.  Then he does something unique.  He takes a small child into His arms and says, “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but the Him who sent Me.” (Mark 9:37 NKJV) 
What does it say about Jesus that there was a small child near Him?  Repeatedly in Scripture, we see Jesus taking the humble path.  On Christmas, we celebrate Him coming from Heaven, where He was seated in power, to take the form of a helpless, defenseless baby.  Should we not take a humble path as well?  Take a look today at what forms that humility might take in your life.  Remember that you are not greater than the greatest servant of all time.

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