It is so easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing. You may not really be a football fan, but you go to that Superbowl party where everyone is cheering for this team and all of a sudden you’re throwing a fit and saying certain four letter words when the flag is thrown against you. You don’t care but you got caught up in what everyone else was doing.

       It’s really easy to do this with how we judge someone’s value. Our culture judges value based on power. The more influence you have, the more your ideas are listened to, the more you’re respected, the more valuable you must be. If nobody listens to you, then obviously you’re not valuable. If you don't have to do the things you don’t want to do then you must be valuable. If you are constantly doing jobs and activities that you don’t really want to do then you must not be very important. It’s easy to start seeing others and ourselves this way. 

       But Jesus said in his kingdom, things are going to be different. Mark 10:43-45, “43 But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Jesus says in his kingdom, value and importance are measured differently. Nobody is more valuable than Jesus, and Jesus gives his life up for others. The servants are the important people. The ones doing the thing they don’t want to do for someone else, they’re the heroes. The rockstars aren’t the guys on the top of the organizational flow chart, they’re the ones going out of their way to help others, even when it’s hard.

       Thank you for volunteering this week. It might be hard and it might not be what you want to do, but in this kingdom, you’re the rockstar. You’re the hero. You’re the one on Sunday morning we look to and say, “I want to be like them.” Thank you for following Jesus. Thank you for serving.