{"id":862,"date":"2020-11-14T23:08:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2020-11-14T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T23:08:49","slug":"being-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBeing Last\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said,\u00a0\u201cAnyone who wants to be first must the very last, and the servant of all.\u201d\u00a0 Mark 9:35<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus tells his disciples that to be first they must be the very last. Ouch! How\u2019s the service where you live? Are you waiting in line to enter stores now? Are you having to return two or three times to get what you want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service used to be the key to a successful business. I owned a business for twenty-six years and told my employees that the customers they were serving are the ones writing their paycheck, not me. I\u2019d like to blame the current lack of service on the Pandemic, but I think it was deteriorating well before that. Lately, it\u2019s as if I\u2019m not only last in line, but that I must come back for something I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t like poor service, lines, waiting, calling back, going back or being last. That\u2019s why God gave me Mark 9:35 to write about this week. He is not only asking me to be joyful in being last, but to do it with Him at my side. Forgive me for my impatience, Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I been intolerant lately? Have I invited Jesus to wait with me or to give me the grace to be joyful while I wait?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cSitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said,\u00a0\u201cAnyone who wants to be first must the very last, and the servant of all.\u201d\u00a0 Mark 9:35 Applying God\u2019s Word Jesus tells his disciples that to be first they must &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}