Today's readings are Numbers 22.21-23.3 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Num.+22.21-23.3 ) and Luke 22.24-46 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Luke+22.24-46 ).
It's a wonderful thing when we work hard, study, train ourselves, and advance in our careers. What a wonderful thing when God's people study the Scripture and learn to be good leaders in their family, local church, work place, and society! Every one of us desires, on one level or another, to gain in our respectability and status in our communities and professions. While professionalism, expertise, and respect of others is a good thing, a Christlike character is of inestimably greater value. And how is that leadership in Christ shown? Jesus says that if we wish to be the greatest we should become humble, the servant of all. We serve as Christ serves.
Let us beware of a haughty attitude which exercises leadership by force and by man's plans rather than by service and Christ's plan. May we have the mind of Christ, who humbled himself and became the servant of all.
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