Born to Serve

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 85, Born to Serve.

Mark 10:45 — hear this: "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Let that land for just a moment.

The Son of Man. That title carries the full weight of eternity — the eternal King, the one who spoke the universe into being, the one before whom angels fall silent. He had every right to arrive in this world and be received with honor, with power, with the service of nations. Every right. And what did he choose? The towel. The dusty road. The cross. His greatness didn't show up on a throne — it showed up on its knees, washing the feet of men who still didn't understand who he was.

That overturns everything we think we know about greatness.

In the Kingdom of God, the way up runs low. It is not a detour. It is not a temporary humiliation you endure until the glory comes. Serving is the road itself. It is the path Jesus walked — and he is not asking you to do something he didn't do first.

But the verse goes even deeper than that. He didn't just serve with his time and his hands — he gave his life as a ransom. That word ransom has real weight. It is the price paid to free someone who was held captive. And Jesus served all the way down to the bottom: he gave his own blood. You were purchased by love. Not by your performance, not by your record — by a love that walked all the way to the cross and never turned back.

When that settles into you, a question begins to stir: where have you been waiting to be served?

At breakfast, waiting for someone to notice you're exhausted? At work, waiting for recognition that never seems to come? At home, keeping score of who did more and who did less? That question is not an accusation — it is a mirror. Because all of us come to the day with that hidden expectation that the world owes us something. And Jesus came to say: I chose the other side. And I am calling you to the same side.

But nobody becomes a servant in a single grand gesture. You don't become a servant in a moment of inspiration or a surge of good feeling. The servant is formed in hidden places — in a thousand small choices nobody sees, nobody applauds, nobody posts about. That is precisely where Christ is being shaped inside you. Each small choice is a layer. And over time, the weight of those layers changes who you are at your core.

So today, before breakfast — before you pick up your phone, before the day finds its speed — serve one person quietly. Make someone's coffee without announcing it. Make the bed before anyone asks. Send a word of encouragement to someone you know is carrying something heavy. And tell no one. Let it stay between you and God. Because that is where service becomes worship — in the silence, in the unseen, in the small.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.