Life As Liturgy: Servanthood/Humility
Bottomline: It is impossible to follow Jesus and not serve others.
Children have a way of humbling you and teaching you to not just focus on your own wants and needs.
A humble heart produces good fruit.
You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 43 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.