Hard Work and Sacrifice

Being great servants makes a nice holy card, but not in real life. There are the C-suites, seats in Church sanctuaries, inner circle tables at banquets, private banking floors, platinum memberships for early plane boarding, etc. These are what we strive for. We were taught by our families to work hard and get ahead. Our schools drive competition to be at the top of class. Thank God – but more precisely thank Jesus. He decided that being on top meant climbing to the top of Calvary’s hill and hanging on a cross so that He could save the world and all in it. He accepted a different way for our sake. Too bad it didn’t end there. He has insisted that His disciples – you and me – need to follow his example. These 40 days are the time to give this a more serious attempt.

Tip:         

At work, school, family there’s always a pecking order. Pick somebody down the food chain from each of us. Today do something to help that person.

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Verse:  

1 Peter 5:2-4

Tend the flock of God in your midst,
overseeing not by constraint but willingly,
as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.
Do not lord it over those assigned to you,
but be examples to the flock.
And when the chief Shepherd is revealed,
you will receive the unfading crown of glory.