Become Less

Trinity asked me what the shirt today I was wearing meant. I gave her a halfway okay answer, maybe, I think, but I wasn't sure it was completely correct. I don't even remember what the answer was now. I'll be able to give her a better one next time, because its kind of cool that it was the focus of today's message at church (even though the verse on my shirt wasn't mentioned): "He must become greater; I must become less." (John 3:30).

The message today started talking about complacent Christians who lost that hunger to really know God and His will, caring more about what the world thinks than what God thinks. Instead of making God big and us small, we make us big and God small. Then it switched up to a great Biblical example of someone who got it dead on: Noah.

Noah must not have cared much what the world thought. He was building an ark for a crazy long time. The nearest body of water was very far away. It hadn't rained yet, ever. People must have thought he was nuts. A good guy, yeah, but nuts! That must not have mattered to Noah; what mattered to him was what God wanted him to do, and he did it. God was number one to Noah.

I get the meaning of the verse better now. It fits in with the pretty common theme of "you know, its really not all about YOU".

Serving Others

I came across the card ministry link under the volunteer section on our church's website last night. I'll have to admit, I didn't get it, and I thought "What kind of good work is that, putting together cards? That seems pretty trivial."

So on the radio this morning I heard part of a sermon from Pastor Jeremiah at Shadow Mountain where he talked about how at the last supper, Jesus' disciples were arguing about who was to be the greatest when Jesus, their leader, got down and washed their feet, which turns out was one of the most menial tasks in that culture, given to the lowliest of servants.

Jamie mentioned to me later in the day that she was thinking of helping with the card ministry and explained what it was in more detail. In fact, I didn't connect the two events above until she mentioned it.

If Jesus can wash the feet of his disciples, who am I to say that "I'm above "?