I. Readings
Psalms 16, 62, 97
2 Samuel 15:1-18
Acts 21:27-36
Mark 10:32-45
II. Selections
Psalm 62:9
Those of low estate are but a breath,
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.
2 Samuel 15:1
After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him.
Acts 21:36
The crowd that followed kept shouting, "Away with him [ Paul]!"
Mark 10:43
" ...But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant ... " [ Jesus to his twelve disciples]
III. Meditation: Lightweights on the balances
We would like to be thought of as important-
Absalom thought a chariot and horses
and fifty men to run ahead of him
would make him more royal.
We delude ourselves-
of high estate or low estate,
we are lightweights on the balances;
how futile the attempt to prove our worth.
The people who mobbed and tried to kill Paul
felt themselves righteous and Paul a desecrater.
Paul was your servant, and he attained greatness
dwarfing the sum attained by all who reviled him.
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