Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you; but whosoever will be great among you; shall be your servant; and whosoever of you will be chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man came, not to be ministered unto but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Jesus struggled
To make his disciples understand;
He did not lead them
To the kind of greatness that they desired.
His was the path of the suffering servant.
His disciples would not comprehend
His sacrifice until the resurrection.
We look back two millenia
To the crucifixion,
To his suffering,
Because it is so incomprehensible.
But we must focus on the resurrection
Just as his early followers did.
We must remember
That he calls us
To the path of servanthood.
To make his disciples understand;
He did not lead them
To the kind of greatness that they desired.
His was the path of the suffering servant.
His disciples would not comprehend
His sacrifice until the resurrection.
We look back two millenia
To the crucifixion,
To his suffering,
Because it is so incomprehensible.
But we must focus on the resurrection
Just as his early followers did.
We must remember
That he calls us
To the path of servanthood.
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