#Jesus - Daily DevotionalsSample

#TurnAround (Tobias Teichen)

Humiliation – sounds abhorrent. Submission – also not much more positive. First of all, this goes against my ego and sounds totally absurd.

One day when Jesus’ disciples argue about who is, so to say, the deputy of Jesus’ gang, Jesus comes with a child and says that God particularly blesses those who do not put themselves in the center but who serves others. Setting your own wishes aside and caring for the well-being of others? That sounds quite paradoxical, but for God, some things work differently than for us.

In the society during the time of Jesus, children were only truly valuable when they were able to contribute something to the parents’ household. Otherwise, they were rather annoying appendages to whom little attention was paid. However, Jesus takes one of these little “buggers” and gives him true value. Whoever takes time for the despised and supposedly superfluous is really a man/woman of greatness and is linked to the supernatural relationship with God.

Jesus himself preached this principle to us at Easter. He allowed himself to be condemned and put to death despite being innocent to serve us humans by taking our guilt on himself. But then Jesus rose from the dead and, as Paul formulates, he was set “far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” (Ephesians 1:21‬).

And shortly before that, Paul even wrote that the same power in which Jesus was resurrected can also take effect in every person who is in a relationship with him!

Actionstep:

Which person have you possibly recently ignored who could need your help? How could you make this person happy? Try out this paradoxical principle to see if God might not have one or another surprise ready for you. Let the Holy Spirit lead you today and pay attention to his impulses.