I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Matthew 18-20.

    This passage begins and ends with a lesson about being great in God’s eyes. I believe that most of us would agree that a person who acts the way Jesus describes is what a truly great person acts like. The problem we have is that we are not satisfied with being great, we want people to KNOW that we are great. If we want to be great in God’s eyes, we need to be humble. We will never be great in God’s eyes if we think we are better than others. Of course there is another reason we have a problem with being great by God’s standards. We want to be great in order to have other people satisfy our needs and wants. Jesus tells us that it is impossible to be both great and have others satisfy our needs and wants because in order to be great we need to spend our time satisfying the needs and wants of others. If we want to be truly great we need to spend our time serving others. Which leads us to one of those paradoxes of life, sometimes in order to satisfy the needs and wants of others we need to allow them to satisfy our needs and wants.