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Our Daily Bread - Monday, January 18, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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TRUE GREATNESS

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But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
-Mark 10:43

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Genesis 43-45
Matthew 12:24-50

Some people feel like a small pebble lost in the immensity of a canyon. But no matter how insignificant we can judge ourselves to be, we can be greatly used by God.
In a sermon early in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Jesus' words from Mark 10 about servanthood. Then he said, "Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve....You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
When Jesus' disciples quarrelled about who would get the places of honour in heaven, He told them: "Whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant. And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:43-45).
I wonder about us. Is that our understanding of greatness? Are we gladly serving, doing tasks that may be unnoticed? Is the purpose of our serving to please our Lord rather than to gain applause? If we are willing to be a servant, our lives will point to the One who is truly great. - Vermon Grounds
No service in itself is small,
None great, though earth it fill;
But that is small that seeks its own,
And great that does God's will. - Anon

Little things done in Christ's name are great things.

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