Randy Wray’s Blog

Some thoughts from our mid-week tune-up last night.

Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum. When they went into a house there, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But the followers did not answer, because their argument on the road was about which one of them was the greatest. Jesus sat down and called the twelve apostles to him. He said, “Whoever wants to be the most important must be last of all and servant of all.” Then Jesus took a small child and had him stand among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said, “Whoever accepts a child like this in my name accepts me. And whoever accepts me accepts the One who sent me.‚Äù (Mark 9:33-37 NCV)

Get any group of people together and invariably the jockeying begins for position. Much effort and energy is expended to sort out and establish a pecking order.

Richard Foster makes the following observation:

Whenever there is trouble over who is the greatest there is trouble over who is the least. Most of us know we will never be the greatest; just don’t let us be the least.

Why is it that most of us fear being the least?