To Serve and Not To be Served

My Sunday Scripture 2009.10.18


35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him. 'Master,' they said to him, 'We want you to do us a favour.'
36 He said to them, 'What is it you want me to do for you?'
37 They said to him, 'Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.'
38 But Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I shall drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I shall be baptised?'
39 They replied, 'We can.' Jesus said to them, 'The cup that I shall drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I shall be baptised you shall be baptised,
40 but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.'
41 When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John,
42 so Jesus called them to him and said to them, 'You know that among the gentiles those they call their rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt.
43 Among you this is not to happen. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant,
44 and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all.
45 For the Son of man himself came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'

Saint Mark 10:35-45


My Reading Notes:

This is the most important teaching about life.

Every life on earth has a purpose, and that is to serve.
Each and every life on earth has the same purpose. Even
a grass, a flower, a tree.... they are all the same,
they come to serve others. The whole of the universe
are linked up in this way.

The difference is whether we as a man know it or not.
If you can know this, if you can know that your own
life has a purpose itself, and your own life is
actually going to serve as a "server" and if you can
see that point, and if you are conscious about that,
then you can better make use of your life. Because,
you had put in your own effort as a conscious mind.
You had doubled your life force, as you had put your
self into it.