Does reading these verses bring you joy or angst? I see them as an invitation for self reflection. What about you?

“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.”

Matthew 16: 24-27 (NIV).

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Here’s God’s heart on true leadership. If only our leaders would internalize this message and act accordingly.

Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Matthew 20: 25-28 (NIV).

I’m reading Exodus 10: 1-12. It is impressed on my mind that the people of every land suffer or thrive because of the decisions of their appointed, elected, or inherited leaders.

Pharaoh’s officials and the Egyptian people looked favorably upon the Moses and the Hebrews. They supported compliance with Moses’s demands. Ignoring the advice of the leaders and the suffering of his people, Pharaoh’s pride led to great suffering.

There is a lesson in there for us. It applies to America as well as the foreign nations that we interject ourselves into.

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