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Friday, October 14, 2016

reordering

Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me not to seek to be first today, whatever that may look like in my life.  But help me to seek to be last, for then I will be great in your kingdom.  Amen.

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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