Susan Boyles

I'm sure we have all got to experience the slap in the face that has come with the Susan Boyles story. If not, check out this video and it will speak for itself: (copy and paste)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg&feature=related

In light of that....I would like to share a little something about humility and how we SHOULD view our fellow man.

Who am I?
I contradict myself.
The more I dry the wetter I get.
I am made of cloth and flimsy yet I have been used as a very important tool.
I have been used for teaching.
The Master used me to serve those who should have served him.
I am mentioned in scripture as you learn humility.
I am what God in the flesh used to set the example.
I am the towel Jesus Christ used when he washed the apostle’s feet.

Now read John 13:1-17
John 13
1Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2And £supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”
7Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
8Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”
12So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

I am reminded of Luke 9:48
48 and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all will be great."

The least among us will be great. I believe that we often times forget that we are all children of the King. And not just any king, but the King of Kings. That makes each of us a prince or princess, does it not? Yesterday my daughter heard a song that finally drove that point home for her on a cd called Pursued By God. We tend to forget that we are all pursued by God because of His love for us. It is a truly difficult reality to grasp that God loves Adolph Hitler and Billy Graham the exact same. He sent His son to die for both of them as well as the rest of us. There is nothing we can do to make God love us more.........there is nothing we can do to make Him love us less. Christ died for us and is pursuing us, is pursuing a love relationship with us, no matter what. He doesn't see us as tall, short, fat, skinny, ugly, or more beautiful than anyone else. Each of us as individuals are perfectly beautiful in His eyes. So why do we judge each other any differently. I don't believe I know anyone who is perfect enough to Judge, except Him. So when do we all just get over ourselves and relish and enjoy our differences, rather than try to do the work of the enemy and destroy each other for these individual diversities God has chosen to bestow upon us?

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF!!..........Jesus said so!