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An admirer once asked the famous orchestra conductor Leonard Bernstein what was the most difficult instrument to play.
He responded with quick wit: "Second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find one who plays second violin with as much enthusiasm or second French horn or second flute, now that's a problem. And yet if no one plays second, we have no harmony."
Ah, what a terrible father pride is as it begets bitterness, anger, jealousy, resentment… the list goes on and on until it ends with the final word STUPIDITY underlined and in capital letters.
Warning - when I say "humility" you most likely think of being a doormat. Wrong thought.
Rather think of humility as a threshold to a door to learning because a humble person is willing to admit they don't know it all. A humble person is an ongoing student.
What's another good thing about being humble? Humble people get to know and understand others better because they are willing to deal with them as equals rather than play the role of the arrogant divider.
In short, don't live as if the world revolves around you, but rather that you and others are living on this same revolving globe with each of you learning from and teaching each other all at the same time.
The bowl was full and so was His heart; a heart full of love and humility and sadness for soon the hands that held the bowl would be pierced and He would die.
And there in the upper room, the bowl was filled with water, ready, as was the custom, so that a servant could wash the feet of the seated guests.
When the Disciples entered the room, arrogance was in full bloom as they loudly argued who was the greatest among them...and therefore, who would be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven...
It would be a cold day on the sands of the Sahara before any of them would even think about washing these feet dirtied by Jerusalem's streets. To perform such a menial task would be demeaning, in particular since they were the twelve chosen ones.
An inferiority complex was certainly the last thing they were suffering from.
So the son of man and the Son of God did what they could not – would not do, removed His outer cloak, tied a towel around His waist, knelt down and began to wash their feet. And His humility was a lesson devoutly made.
Oh, He had tried to teach them this lesson many, many times before, the importance of servitude, but it was just as hard a lesson for the Disciples to accept then as it is for you and me to accept today.
But then they finally got it – the big picture. Or as Mark describes it in chapter 10 verse 45: "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
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