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DON'T BE TOO BIG TO DO SOMETHING SMALL

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DON'T BE TOO BIG TO DO SOMETHING SMALL
By Max Lucado
Jesus entered the world to serve.
We can enter our jobs, our homes, our churches.
Servanthood requires no unique skill or seminary degree.
Regardless of your strengths, training, or church tenure,
you can…

Love the overlooked. Jesus sits in your
classroom, wearing the thick
glasses, outdated clothing, and a sad face.
You’ve seen him. He’s Jesus.

Jesus works in your office.
Pregnant again, she shows up to work
late and tired.
No one knows the father.
According to water-cooler
rumors, even she doesn’t know the father.
You’ve seen her. She’s Jesus.

When you talk to the lonely student, befriend the
weary mom, you love Jesus.
He dresses in the garb of the overlooked and ignored.
“Whenever you did one of these things to someone
overlooked and ignored,
that was me—you did it to me.” (Matt. 25:40 MSG).

You can also…

Wave a white flag. We fight so much. “Where do
you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from?”
asks the brother of Jesus.
“Do you think they just happen? Think again.
They come about because you want your own way,
and fight for it deep inside yourselves.” (James 4:1 MSG).
Serve someone by swallowing your pride.

One more aspect of servanthood…

Every day do something you don’t want to do.
Pick up someone else’s trash.
Surrender your parking place.
Call the long-winded relative.
Doesn’t have to be a big thing. Don’t
be too big to do something small.
“Throw yourselves into the work of the Master,
confident that nothing you do for him is a waste
of time or effort” (I Cor. 15:58 MSG).
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From Cure for the Common Life
Copyright 2005, Max Lucado


PRAYER
"Father, you have revealed your glory in our Lord Jesus Christ. Fill
me with your Holy Spirit that I may bring you glory in all that I do
and say."

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