Greetings from Pastor James;

      Success and greatness in this world is determined by who has the most stuff. Success is being the best athlete. The one who has the best paying job is successful. Successful in society is the one most popular.

      People compete to be first to get the latest electronic mobile, computer, big screen, razor thin cellular communications, eye pad, or is it i-pad, apps galore and not a trillion but kazillion bytes to hold all the data and more and more and more. All just to be the first and the greatest and best.

     Our desire to be on top, the greatest, the most important hinders not helps. We should find out how we can help someone if we want to follow in the steps of Jesus.

      Read Mark 10:35-45. 

     Jesus portrays a different picture about being the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.  We are to serve with eagerness and not out of obligation. We should be concerned with what we can give and not what we can get. We should lead by example of our own lives and not by force.

     In order to be the greatest in God’s eyes we must have the heart of Christ.  Proof of our love for Jesus is found not merely in attending church, reading the Bible, singing praise songs, or serving as an usher or an elder (although each of these activities is an important part of a growing spiritual life). But the most important in the eyes of God are found in loving and serving the sick, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed.

    It is God working through us today that brings His love into the world. Those with the heart of a servant are called to serve the least of these. True greatness and beauty in the Kingdom of God is in the heart of a servant.

    Come worship at Living Water Christian Church. Read and listen to the Word of God and the message proclaimed in Jesus’ name. The Word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit will take away the hard, prideful and selfish heart. God will give you the heart of Christ: True Greatness is truly in those with the Heart of Servant.

Blessings to all

Pastor James Boyette

Living Water Christian Church   lwccsv.org

72 N Lake Ave.

Front Royal VA 22630