“If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (Mark 9:35, ESV).
We live in a success-oriented society. So all you high achievers may want to know how you achieve success in the Kingdom of God!
Achieving success in God’s Kingdom actually occurs much differently from achieving success in this world. Kingdom success doesn’t come by promoting yourself or by exerting power and influence over others. It doesn’t even come by working harder and longer than everybody else.
“Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God. So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist,and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.” (John 13:3-4, NLT).
John says that Jesus came from God and had all authority over everything and then He washed His disciples’ feet!
Say, what?
The God of the universe became a human being and then washed the feet of the human beings He created?
“Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth” (Numbers 12:3, ESV).
Being the humblest person on earth is not a character trait we usually associate with Moses. Moses was a great leader of the Israelites, so we assume he had to be assertive, a Type A personality.
After all, to be an effective leader you can’t be humble and expect people to follow.
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