PB Devotional

Though the world prizes money and possessions, leadership and authority, Jesus’ way of doing things flips that upside down. The first will be last, and the last first—so we are called to serve rather than to lord it over others. Serving people is key to what it means to be a disciple in Jesus’ kingdom.

Jesus doesn’t hesitate to use himself as the prime example. If anyone ever qualified as having authority, it is Jesus: Son of God, healer of all sorts of illnesses, with power over life and death, authority over demons, and much more. Jesus tells his disciples that he has not come to be served, but to serve.

If Jesus came to be a servant, then we, his followers, are called to be servants too.