Thursday, September 21, 2017
Haiti
Matthew 20:25-28 & Philippians
2:5-8
Brenda and Warren Taylor
In preparing
for this reflection, the (NKJV) phrase, “But Jesus called them to himself”
(v25), struck me. This calling is not
the type that screams, “Hey y’all, get over here.” No, it is the Way of Christ,
a drawing to, a charismatic attraction, the magnetism same as the humble
carpenter walking along the sea of Galilee beckoning to a few fishermen, “Come
follow me.” Paul describes it this way in his letter to the church at Philippi,
“Who being in very nature God” (V6, NIV). When we are called this way, we stop
what we are doing. We “drop our nets.”
Our team
left today for Haiti on a medical mission. Being the first time for me, I can
only go by what I have heard from those who have gone before and before me. Do
we already have the same mindset as Christ? Well, for me, I believe it is a
lifelong quest. When I listen to how our
servant team describes their experience of past Haiti mission trips, I can
imagine they came by their “same mindset as Christ” or a glimpse of that same
mindset as a byproduct of the willingness of their servant’s heart. Does our
humility come before the act of service? More, I believe, it comes from the
very humble nature of those served: God’s children who inhabit this
devastatingly poor and destitute area; a people hungering for the breath of the
Holy Spirit to whisk them away if not just for a few affectionate, attention
filled moments. Indeed, it is these
moments that humble our servant team and allow us to adopt, if only for an
instant, the same mindset of Christ.
By the way,
today’s gospel scripture repeats in Mark 10:42-44, which gives this truth
lesson in humility a double shot of importance.
We have it on good accord that Mark was basing this journal of Jesus’s
teachings on Peter’s own eyewitness account.
Yahweh, soften our
hearts today, opening the windows of our soul and let the Holy Spirit whisk in
a bit of Lord Jesus’ humility. Amen
Bradford
Bosworth
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