Scripture: Matthew 19:23-30
Journal: How do these verses intersect with your life today? What is God trying to say through them? What kind of reordering is God trying to do
in you?
Reflection:
It is impossible for a camel to make itself
small enough to fit through the eye of a needle. And why would it even want to in the first
place? That is unless there was some eternal
value in becoming small, or last, or least.
Then that would change everything, right? But how could that happen? What could possibly be the redeeming value of
being last? That’s where Jesus comes
in. He enters the picture and starts
turning life, and the status quo, upside down.
That’s because he knows that there is something about being rich that
makes us big, too big maybe. There is
something about trying to be first and great and large that runs contrary to
what God really wants to do in us. As a
matter of fact, he tells us that the last will actually be first
in his kingdom. For his kingdom is not
about making ourselves big and great and first, but making him big and great
and first. We do this by raising him up,
not ourselves. And then it expresses
itself in our lives by raising others up, by letting them ahead of us, because
of his great love and affection. I mean,
how on earth can we ever hope to enter the narrow way if we are too
big? That would be like a camel trying
to go through the eye of a needle.
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Lord Jesus, reorder my mind and my heart and
make them like your own, so that I might think the way you think and feel the
way you feel; in order that I might love the way you love and walk the way you
walk. Amen.
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