Matthew 18-20; Proverbs 6:20-35
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“This is the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and
the last first.” Matthew 19:30 MSG
Jesus said stuff like this quite a bit … “the first will be last
and the last first,” “whoever humbles himself like the child is the greatest in
the kingdom of heaven,” “whoever wants to be great among you must be your
servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.” He set the example. “The Son of Man did not come to be
served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
I love how Jesus would turn things around from what people
normally thought. He said, “You
know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high
officials exercise authority over them.
Not so with you.” He wants
us to be different. He doesn’t
want us to strive to be better than each other or to seek a high position. We should not seek to be exalted. He wants us to be humble, to be like
children without anything to get in the way of our faith, and He wants us to
serve others. It is not the rich
and the powerful and the famous that are blessed the most; it is those who have
given everything up for His sake who will receive a hundred times as much.
Jesus cared about women and children and the mentally or
physically challenged when in that time all these types of people were seen as
lowly and unimportant nuisances.
When they would want to be near Jesus, the disciples and others would
rebuke them, but Jesus tells them to come. He shows them love and gives them value.
Everyone always seems to be trying to make it to the top … to be
the greatest, when what God really wants is for us to notice the people around us
and lift them up instead. The
Great Reversal.
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