Prayer Prompt before reading MT 20:17-28: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
JUST SO, THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.” MT 20:17-28
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
If Jesus asked you, “What do you wish for?”, what would be your response? In this case it was for a high seat of honor by a mother for her sons. Like most parents, she wants what is best for her children. Jesus teaches us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. Why? “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Pride is putting everyone else down to lift yourself up, pointing everyone else’s faults out to hide your own, putting down those with less intelligence to boost your own. Jesus is the opposite of pride in the highest degree. He is “meek and humble of heart”. He is gentle yet the most powerful and gives totally and completely of Himself.
The Nativity reminds us of how humble God is. God, who created the world out of nothing with just His Words, the most intelligent and powerful being, came to us in a cave with animal dung around Him completely vulnerable needing two humans to take care of Him. He needed them to clothe and feed Him being dependent on these two wonderful humans. There is no greater self-sacrifice then this. There is no way we can match this humility.
He continues this humility by giving Himself totally and completely hidden behind bread and wine to transform us with His grace and love until He returns. When is the last time you became completely vulnerable and gave up yourself totally and completely for another. Subdue your pride, put on a meek and humble heart, and serve those God has put in your life. Put love into each action. Do not complain but count your blessings. Stop judging and start helping. Serve. This is the heart of Christ, “love one another as I have loved you”.
We are called to imitate Christ. If everyone did this (starting with myself), it would be the greatest revolution the planet has ever seen. Following Jesus is hard, but the rewards are eternal! Be a servant, become a saint!
Today’s challenge: Be a servant, become a saint! Enter each room and ask how you can help. Put others before self out of love. I bet you will be filled with joy even though you gave up what you wanted or you will at least have a new perspective. Take someone else’s plate at supper and wash it for them to remind yourself that we are created to love and serve others even if they don’t appreciate it or love you back!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
Pride is putting everyone else down to lift yourself up, pointing everyone else’s faults out to hide your own, putting down those with less intelligence to boost your own. This stood out to me because I think that everyone has done this, maybe not directly to their face but in our mind and I think everyone should work on just being nicer to everyone, even in your mind.
JUST SO, THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.” MT 20:17-28. Something that stood out to me about this was that Jesus did not come to be served by others but to serve them and give his own life as a ransom for the people of the world.
Jesus said to the Zebedee boys that they cannot choose where they will sit in heaven and that Jesus cannot give them that place at the right and left side because it is not his to give.
This is telling me that I need to stop thinking of myself as the center of the world and start to do things for others even when it does not directly benefit me.
JUST SO, THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.” MT 20:17-28. Something that stood out to me about this was that Jesus did not come to be served by others but to serve them and give his own life as a ransom for the people of the world.
JUST SO, THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.” MT 20:17-28 this line spoke to me because Jesus didn’t come to this earth for us to serve him, he came for us. When we go throughout our day, how many times do we stop and think about helping others? Are we waiting to be served or are we waiting to serve someone? when you think of a king, you think of luxury, servants, knights, but the real king came from heaven serving his people. Never in the gospels is Jesus acting like royalty, he is a very humble man. Do we want to be like a king, who depends on everyone else, or do we want to be like Jesus and serve our neighbors.
“Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.”
In this Gospel today it is saying that the least among us will be the greatest in Heaven. Jesus is saying that those who are rich in the world, will be the least of us in Heaven because it is not those with the most money, nor the most things, it is those with the least, with no money, who work for you because they are not using other, they are living life with faith even though it may be less than yours, that doesn’t mean they are any less important. So live a life like Jesus’, with faith and humility. With love and compassion.
“Jesus came not to be served, but to serve”.
This part stuck out to me because it can prove that Jesus’ didn’t want to be served, but to serve others. He’s not like the other kings and queens, the rulers. He wants to serve others, because that is the right thing to do. Not to demand worship, demand praise, but to serve others. In today’s world, we should serve others with kindness, respect, and forgiveness. Not demand to be served like some higher classmates, false gods, and anybody that falls in the ‘demanding to be served’ category. In all, we should be kind and respect others, not be the rotting, mean, higher-up. Because you will never be the most highest, that is God.
It takes a lot of trust in faith to folow God. it will never be an easy path to heaven. puting people own will neveer make you happy in life. it will make you more sad and more mad than before you did that. But if you lift people up and love people and care form them it will make you way happirt than anything in life. God has every right to not be humble he is the createer of the univers. he made every thing . but still he shows us how to be humble and hoe to act to people.
In today’s Gospel, a woman makes a wish, asking Jesus that her sons sit on the right and left of Him in Heaven. When we pray, we shouldn’t wish, we need to let it go, and wait for God to show us His plans for us. If we trust in God, all of our wishes and hopes and dreams will come true. By being like Christ, our lives will be so much better, and there won’t be any judgment, or gossip, or sadness. Once we make it to Heaven, everything will be okay.
We need to let God take control, because if we do, we can make it to our forever home.
“JUST SO, THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.”
The first thing I took was “What do I wish for and how do I wish for it to happen”. Then I took that I should not just let someone do something by themselves, but instead ask if I can help them with whatever doing.
I think the phrase “Subdue your pride, put on a meek and humble heart, and serve those God has put in your life.” is very important for all of us because most of the sinful actions we do are driven by pride. This mainly include thinking of ourselves above others, whether that means we are physically stronger or we are more popular everybody is the same, were all human. Meaning nobody has the right to put other people down just because we think they arent equal too use. The only thing that should matter to anybody is there own soul and relationship to God, and its ok to help other spiritual but not to judge them with their realtionship with God.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus says the Son of God did not come here to be served but to serve and to give His life to everyone. His humility is what we need right now to wish to be great among everyone not first, we don’t need to be first. Only God is first not us.
Today’s Gospel told me that God doesn’t want us to sit at the right and left of him he wants us to be with His in Heaven. God wants us to be with Him forever and not be with Him at the right and left.
We have to serve God and give our life to Him. We have to speak the Word of God instead of not doing so. God wants us to preach for Him and let others know they are loved by Him.
I like how at the end of the Gospel, it gives a little message about humility: “Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” It is always important to be humble in our lives because Satan doesn’t know what to do or how to attack you when you are humble. Humility is always the greater option. When you are being humble, you are not weak, you are the strongest you can ever be.
Jesus came down from heaven to serve us although it should be the other way around. He never had to come down from heaven to save us, but because of his love for us he CHOSE to.
“Be a servant, become a saint” We are not called to be served, but to serve others and to give our life to God. This is what it says the Son of Man does in the gospel.
In today’s scripture, I really loved how it says that Jesus tells us that he teaches us to follow him. Pride is not a good thing, it is bringing people down, it’s bringing ourselves down, we should not put others down, instead we should lift others up like Jesus did. Jesus is most humble and most powerful all, yet he does not brag about, we should not brag about ourselves, we should be thankful for everything God has given us, be grateful for all the blessings he has given us, and for another day of life and another day of peace and love with God. It really stuck out to me when it says that the Nativity reminds us that God is very humble, he loves you so much, he created you out of his image and likeness, he created this world out of nothing, but with his love and mercy for us, we have been created and so has the world. We should not judge others, instead we should help others who are struggling physically or mentally or just anyone in general who needs help from other people because they are struggling within themselves. He transforms us with his love and grace, these gifts we do not deserve them, but God died for you to save you from sin, we should empower others by the Holy Spirit and not make others feel bad about themselves. Jesus is everything, God put you on this earth, this life because he loves Put love into each action. Do not complain but count your blessings.you, we should love one another like Jesus has loved us he says” Love like how I have loved you. Have a good rest of your day!! God loves you so much, this earth is not forever, until we make it to heaven, God Bless You and make sure to count your blessings!!! Viva Cristo Rey!!!
The passage shows our natural human desire for recognition and status and wanting to be popular. It teaches that if you want to be “somebody great” in God’s eyes, your goal should not be to reach the top of a hierarchy or the best at everything or be popular, but to be the person who serves most deeply to our God because in the end all of our social lives wont matter the only thing that matters is God and our faith