Luke 17:7-10
“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? Won’t he rather say, “Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
Wow. These verses are tough. It’s always nice to be told thank you when you do something. Whether it was asked of you or not. It’s just common curtesy. But if it’s your job, then why should you be thanked? Like it says, you did what was told of you; your job!
I know I always want to be thanked when I do something. Even if it is my job or not. And all my life I have been thanked. I’ve taken those “thank you Anna”! and stored them in my heart thinking that that’s what I deserved. I did my job, now give me a well done. I am a prideful person who likes to get praise when I accomplish my tasks. Christ says opposite of that, though. He says to be humble. So many different times throughout the Bible he says that women are to be humble people. And as Christians, we should all be humble people.
I do know that that’s always hard to do. Pridefulness is of the flesh. That’s why it’s so easy to be prideful. But humble people will for sure get a lot more out of life then prideful people.
Application: Whenever I do a task I’ll pray that if anyone gives me a job well done I’ll direct them to Christ instead of keeping if for myself. Then later that day when I have time, I’ll write down how that went and pray that God will help me to be more and more humble.
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