Changing the Subject
Reading: Mark 8, 9 We’ve all been there. The conversation takes a turn that is uncomfortable for us and we try to change the subject. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t Jesus and His disciples were on their way to Capernaum. If the Twelve had been modern day teenagers we would have seen them texting each other so that their Master wouldn’t know what they were saying. As it was, they kept their voices down, thinking He wouldn’t know what the conversation was all about. When they got to Capernaum, the Lord asked them what they had been discussing. Mark records: “ But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest ” (Mark 9:34, NIV). If that wasn’t uncomfortable enough, the Lord speaks the famous words that not too many modern believers like any better than the disciples did. “ If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all ” (Mark 8:35, NIV). And to illustrate the kind of humble servanthood He is speaking about,...