Not About....me

Do you ever wonder how many times you need to learn something? I suppose my own woundedness causes me to stumble through the issue of "it's about me." The scripture tells me in Mark 9:35 that "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." It isn't about being first...it isn't about me. It is about being a servant...to ALL. And a servant, as defined by the Greek in this verse is diakonas. We derive the word deacon from this word. This words views a servant in relation to his work and not in his relation to his master. It is not the word for slave which in Greek is doulos.

A servant - it is what I am called to be. To serve as we see today when we go to a restaurant. A waiter is a picture of a servant.

My thoughts on this continue to work in my heart and mind. I am not done thinking about what it means to be a servant