Develope a Palate

Develope a Palate
Daily intake of the Word nourishes the Spirit. Jeremiah's Menu is an exercise in recognizing God's Word made flesh in and around me. Eating the Word in a way that supplies the spiritual nutrients needed to grow. The Menu is offered with the hope of inspiring you to taste and see that the Lord is good. Bon Appetite!

Quote Du Jour

Quote du Jour
Christians may differ on a variety of points, but they have all one spiritual appetite; and if we cannot all feel alike, we can all feed alike on the bread of life sent down from heaven. At the table of fellowship with Jesus we are one bread and one cup. As the loving cup goes round we pledge one another heartily therein. Get nearer to Jesus, and you will find yourself linked more and more in spirit to all who are like yourself, supported by the same heavenly manna. ---Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening

Friday, March 23, 2012

preparing an entree...

Today... I began to think about the next passage of Psalm 119... the eighteenth Hebrew letter... reading about its heritage... its lore... I came across this phrase...

..."making yourself less in order to make others more"...

Perhaps it caught my attention because of all the stumbling of late... it's harder to trip over a small rock...

..."making yourself less in order to make others more"...

too much of me... making another... less...

..."making yourself less in order to make others more"...

It's what God did... Jesus... emptied... from infinite... to embryonic... from renowned Rabbi... to crucified criminal...

..."making yourself less in order to make others more"...

As followers... it's what we're called to do...

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. ...
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death -- even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:3-7
(my emphasis)

..."making yourself less in order to make others more"...

Its what I've been stumbling over lately... the call to be less... that others might be more...

Lord Jesus... help me remember...
truly... truly...

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