October 26
God has a way of setting things in order—in order as HE deems it should be. When our sense of the scheme of things differs from His, it is only a matter of time until He shakes our efforts, causing them to fall into the place He has ordained for them. In Matthew 23:11, 12, Jesus said, “The greatest among you shall be your servant…”
This flies in the face of the world’s scheme where the least serve the great, where the humble bow before the proud. But in God’s equation, the math is turned around; the balance is tallied in a different number system.
How can we get our calculation to ‘add up’ correctly? How can we assure that we will not labor in vain over our ‘assignment’? The Word gives us a methodology to follow in our endeavor to solve the equation. In Philippians 2:3, Paul says, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
The apostle who had, by his own estimation more about which to boast than anyone else (II Corinthians 11:16 – II Corinthians 12:11) said that apart from Christ, he was nothing and had nothing about which to be proud. Paul affirmed by the laying down of his life for the gospel that the only valuable thing we have in time is our eternal salvation.
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