A Bible passage is stuck in my head today...it is from Luke 9:43-48. In this passage, the disciples end up arguing over who will be the greatest. It does not surprise me that this argument happened, it is something that I think all of us struggle with in our lives. We want to be the "favorite" child, student, friend, or employee. We want to hold that high regard in someone's life, we want to earn the favor of our peers and of our superiors - and the higher in power the person that we earn the favor of, the more justified and powerful we in turn feel.
I can totally see why the disciples would want to be the "highest" person on Jesus' disciple roster - who wouldn't want to hold that highest position? I think it is something that all of us should want to achieve with our lives! It is interesting though, because Jesus goes on to tell them that whoever is the least among them will become the greatest...that means continually dying to oneself in order to live for God. I should probably mention that there is room for all of us on Jesus' #1 roster - he loves us all the same and we can show our appreciation by living for him.
I must say that one of my biggest flaws is that I want to be the most important person to everyone. I love staying in contact with people that I have met, and I want to be held in high regards in all of those peoples' lives...but that is simply impossible, and I think that sometimes when I know I don't hold that high position in their life, I want to do everything in my power to become someone of huge importance to them...but this is such a wrong desire. Everyone holds different interests and some personalities "click" better than others - it's impossible to be the #1 person for everyone you know...you just need to do what you do best -- be yourself and show them the same love that Christ shows you.
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