Total Devotion by Kevin Johnson

Author:Kevin Johnson [Kevin Johnson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780764228841
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

POPULARITY DAY 185

Scrape Away

“Dang!” Cody moans. “Paint chips in my eye again!”

“Where are your goggles?” Micah asks.

“They steam up and I can’t see,” Cody argued back. “Besides, I’ve got this crap stuck to my arms and face and everywhere. Look at my hair. This job is just stupid. What’s the point of fixing this piece of trash house?”

Abby rolls her eyes. “Well, Mr. Handyman, we’re here to help.”

“Yeah, Cody,” Micah adds. “They told us it would be like this.”

“Whatever we fix,” Cody argues, “is going to fall apart again anyway. These people can clean it up themselves. Why should we help them?”

Abby has an answer. “Because it’s too big a job for them.”

Cody plops down. “I quit. You guys are losers. I’m on a team with a bunch of nerds doing a hopeless job for people too lazy to do it themselves. This is a waste of my good talent.”

Read Matthew 27:27–31

Was Jesus afraid to get his hair messed up to help people?

Jesus was totally God. But he didn’t act like his Royal Too-High-to-Help-Out-ness. Born a baby and trained as a carpenter, he grew up and did good wherever he went—healing, feeding, making miracles, feeling people’s joys and pains. In the end, Jesus got far more than his hair messed up. He was beaten, bloodied, and killed for our sake. Even when he died for us—witless people who’d wasted earth—he never grumbled that his unbeatable abilities were being splattered into nothingness like a kicked-over bucket of paint.

When you’re too good to hang with or help certain people—with anyone, anywhere—you’re claiming a superiority God’s Son scorned. Jesus didn’t deny his greatness. He didn’t hide his goodness. Instead, he used that awestriking goodness to help people.

You don’t have to bash yourself. But you can choose to count others better than yourself. To look out for more than your own interests. To serve people who need your help more than you need it yourself.

Just like Jesus.

They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. MATTHEW 2 7:30–31

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