I found myself slightly irritated and frustrated today due to a miscommunication in scheduling for Kids Point (which is our Sunday youth service). The short of it is, I found out today that I need to prepare a lesson which as of 10:30pm I have nil.
You can always see just how selfish and entitled you feel you are when you are inconvenienced. You immediately go to "Don't they have any respect for my time?" And you huff and you puff but the fact remains that there is a need and guess what? You've been called to meet it.
I was reading today in Matthew the story of the brothers who's mother asks Jesus to place them beside his thone. Jesus' response was "Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?" and then goes on to say what true greatness is and that it comes in the form of servitude. And servitude by its nature is completely selfless and ready to give up all rights for someone else. Funny how God prepares you to face life's trials isn't it? Here I am on a quest to find something great for my life and some little thing comes up so seemingly trivial and mundane that just seems like a hassle. It's these things that matter to God. He's looking for heroes to champion the trivial and mundane. Jesus' disciples rebuked people who to them seemed to be pulling Jesus away from a grand destiny yet Jesus rebuked them in reply and demonstrated what true greatness was by putting others' needs before his own. By seeing clearly what mattered.
I think I have my topic for tomorrow.
[Practiced guitar today. Getting noticeably better]
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