Again, good morning. Today is Mother’s Day. I really hope that that was not news to you the first time I said that. If it was news to you the first time I said that, you are probably in trouble. But today is Mother’s Day.

Yes. I understand. It’s more than about mothers today. It’s more than about mothers. But it is about mothers, and we’re excited to talk about that today in addition to talking about our lord and our savior.

And so today is Mother’s Day, and, mothers are very special. You know why mothers are very special? Well, there’s a lot of reasons. I’m gonna just give you a few. Mothers are very special because they are the ones that gave you life in the first place.

They are the ones that actually gave you life in the very first place. They’re the vessel that God used to give you life. So I want you to understand this. Mothers gave you life, but God created you. Amen?

God created you, and mothers are the vessel which God used to get you here. Mothers put everyone else first. Now I understand that’s not the case with all mothers. You can’t make a general statement. Right?

There are some mothers perhaps that are not that way. But most of the time, mothers tend to put everybody else first. Mothers wanna make sure you have your food. Mothers wanna make sure you have your clothes. Mothers wanna make sure that you do your homework.

Mothers wanna make sure that everything and usually what happens is mom is the last one to sit down to eat. She’s the last one to get new clothes. She’s the last one to get new shoes. She’s the last one to do whatever because she’s just built that way. She seems to always put others first.

One of the things that seems universal basically in mothers is that they continually show us the humility that God wants us to have. They live that way. So today, I want you to understand, to the world, all of this the way moms live, it seems upside down. It seems upside down. Mom’s the one that gave you life in the first place.

How come she’s always the one to get everything last? How come she’s always the one that has to wait for something? How come she’s all the one she’s the one that gave you life in the first place? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? It seems upside down.

Why? Why is it that way? Well, god designed things kinda upside down. What do I mean by that? Well, I want you to understand.

So today, we’re going to talk about an upside down kingdom. Look with me to Luke chapter 14 verses seven through 11. Luke chapter 14 verses seven through 11. It’s a parable. You know what a parable is.

Right? So a parable is a story used to teach a point. So Jesus taught a lot of parables. This is a parable, but it’s being used to teach a point. So look at Luke chapter 14 verse seven through 11.

If you have your copy of God’s word, go ahead and open that. If you don’t have one, it’s on the screen. And he began speaking a parable to the invited guest when he noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them, when you were invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him. And he who invited you both will come and say to you, give your place to this man, and then in disgrace, you proceed to occupy the last place. But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place so that when the one who is invited you comes, he may say to you, friend, move up higher.

Then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. It seems foreign to most of the world. Humble yourself. Put yourself in a position that you’re not trying to be first in everything.

Christians are to be humble. Christians are to be meek. I talked to a man one time. He said, I just don’t think I can buy into all of the Christianity because I’m not a weak person. I’m a strong person.

I’m not a weak person. And and I I can’t I can’t be that person that’s that walks around all week all the time. And I said, you don’t understand what that means. It doesn’t mean that you have to be weak all the time. In fact, it means you have to be strong.

Meek doesn’t mean weak. Meek means that you don’t have to be the one that gets all the honor. You don’t have to be the one to get all the glory. You don’t have to be the one that everybody looks to. You don’t have to be that person.

You put yourself in a place of humility, a place of meekness, and because of that, God uses you to do great things. And he gets the glory and not you. You see, the problem is in the world, everybody wants their own accolades. Right? Everybody wants their own accolades.

So it seems upside down to the world to say, go to the place that’s in last. Don’t go to the first place. Years and years ago when I first got in the military, you know, every once in a while, you would do something and somebody would write it up. And the next thing you know, they give you a little certificate or they give you a medal or they give you some kind of award, and they always bring you up in front of everybody and tell all the great things you’ve done. And and they hand you some kind of award, and everybody claps, you know, you go on.

And then sometimes it’s one you wear on your uniform. Other times, it’s one that you just put on the wall or whatever you do with it. Well, I’m having a long career over a period of time. I had gotten all these certificates of appreciation and and awards and ribbons and all these different things, and they all came with some kind of certificate. Well, I put them in nice little frame and I had them up on the wall.

And pretty soon, I had a wall that was, you know, pretty much covered in all these certificates. And somebody walked in one day and they said, oh, I like your I love me wall. I said, my what? They said, I I love me wall. I said, what are you talking about?

They said, well, you obviously love yourself a lot. You put all your rewards up for everybody to see because you just love yourself that much. I took them down. I took them down. I was like, oh, I don’t like that.

That’s not what I’m I was just putting them up because they’ve been given to me. I wasn’t trying to be, but I was. I really was. I put them up because I was proud of what I had gotten. I want everybody to see, but I received some humility that day when he called it my I love me wall.

I took all those things down. I put them in a in a binder that I had so that if I needed them for promotion boards or whatever, I would have them. But I didn’t put them up on the wall and display them to everybody anymore because I realized what that was doing. That’s kinda how we are today. The world says that’s how we should be.

If you get an award, you are the one you should be the one that receives all the accolades, all the glory. Your name should be called. Everybody should know who you are because of what you did. But that’s not what God says. God says, don’t come in here looking for the place of honor.

Go to the the last seat. Go to the lowest possible seat. And then if I need to honor you, I’ll bring you up. If there’s a reason I need to do that, I will bring you up. The wedding feast, it says, look.

Don’t come and take that place of honor because if you do, then somebody might, come in as higher than you, and then you’re gonna be embarrassed. Right? But the world says, look. See if you’ve ever heard these things. If you don’t toot your own horn anybody ever heard that?

If you don’t toot your own horn, nobody else will. Right? Speak up for yourself. Don’t let people overlook you. Speak up for yourself.

Put yourself in the right position. Make sure you put yourself in the right position because it’s the one in the right position is gonna get the accolades and the glory and all that stuff. In other words, you always need to be first in everything that you do. There’s no points for second place, so you need to be first. Right?

Well, here’s here’s something you need to know. I skipped over all these. The reality is there’s no points for any place. There’s no points for any place. When you try to put yourself up, whatever the world gives you, God does not accept that.

That’s not how God looks at you. God doesn’t look at you and go, well, look at George. He had 27 different awards on the wall at one time. He’s a really great guy. No.

He doesn’t do that. God looks at it, and he says, you know what? George has done what I’ve asked him to do, and therefore, he’s glorified me. For every single one of us, that’s how God wants to see you. He wants to see, are you obeying him?

Are you giving him glory? Are you seeking it for yourself? Because the reality is, if we get glory on this side of heaven, that’s not the place we need it. It’s when we step into glory that God gives us our glory. And so here, we need to work for him.

We need to understand that it is not what the world says it shouldn’t be. Put me first, me first, me first. Jesus was the greatest person to ever walk the earth, and he deserved to be lifted up to the highest office and worshiped every day. But instead, he was born in a cattle stall in a borrowed barn, and he lived a relatively poor life situation. He didn’t have a lot, and people certainly did not hold him in a place of honor.

They didn’t hold him in a place of honor. Look at verses eight and nine again. Verses eight and nine says this, when you’re invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him. And he who invited you both will come and say to you, give your place to this man and then in disgrace, you proceed to occupy the last place. I wanna give you a little tip.

Most of us think highly more highly of ourselves than we should. Most of us think more highly of ourselves than we should. Oh, we we like to think we’re really good. We’re better than most. We do things better than most.

We have a better opinion than most. We we look at ourselves as much higher than we should. And if somebody doesn’t think that we’re that high, well, they’re not got the right view. Right? We should be in a place lifted up higher than everybody else.

There’s some that are reverse of that. There are some people that think of their self as always not good enough. Neither of those places are good. God says, if I made you, you’re certainly good enough. But don’t think more highly of yourself than you ought to.

Of course, this spot must be for me. I’ve got to be the most important person in the room, so I’m going to sit in the place of honor. Guess what? That other person that walked in behind you thinks the same thing. Excuse me.

You’re in my seat. You’re in the wrong place. I’m certainly the one to be honored. We want to put ourselves first because we think that high of our self. Jesus said, don’t do that.

Don’t do that. Don’t put yourself first. If it’s discovered that you’re in the wrong spot, man, that’s gonna be embarrassing. That’s gonna be embarrassing. You know, think about this.

In this parable, he says, you put your place in the place of honor And then later, the the one who invited both of you comes and says, George, that’s not your seat. That’s his seat. So get up, get out of the way, because he’s gotta sit there. And the whole party is looking at George going, oh, that’s embarrassing. That’s awful.

That’s terrible. George poor George, he’s embarrassed. He’s in listen. Here’s the thing though. Jesus wasn’t worried about a person being embarrassed.

That wasn’t the point of this parable. He was not worried about that person being embarrassed. What he’s saying is stop thinking so highly of yourself. First, humble yourself. First, humble yourself.

If you want to be used in my kingdom, the first thing you need to do is humble yourself. If we humble ourselves very first, you know what happens? We tend to put Jesus in the right place. The problem when we think more highly of ourselves than we should is we put Jesus down here because self is first. If self is first, then Jesus is down here, and that’s exactly wrong.

Jesus said that’s how the world thinks, but that’s upside down. The way it should be is God should be lifted up. We’re below God. So instead of putting yourself first, put God first. Instead of being the one that thinks you’re always the most important person in the room, understand that Jesus is the most important person in the room.

When you walk into a room, you humble yourself. When you walk in the world, you humble yourself. When you do anything, you humble yourself and put God first. Because here’s the most important thing you need to know. When the time comes and you take your last breath and you leave this world, whether a single person left in this world remembers your name is not important.

But when you leave, if everybody remembers how you live for Jesus and they remember Jesus’ name, then you’ve done exactly what you’re supposed to do. You humble yourself. You put Jesus first because he’s the one that makes the difference, not you. In all of your humanly strength and work and everything you’ve got, you will never be able to save a single soul. But if you humble yourself and you put Jesus first, then he’s the one that saves the people that you come in contact with.

Stop trying to put yourself in a high place. Jesus wasn’t worried about a person being embarrassed. He was trying to show them to put others first is always better. Look at verse 10. Verse 10 says, but when you’re invited, go and recline at the last place so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, friend, move up higher.

Then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you. Now think about this. Think about this. For the glory seeking person, this is a great strategy. This is a great strategy.

I’m gonna go sit at the last place knowing I’m not supposed to be here. I know that the the guy that invited me is gonna move me up, but I’m gonna wait and let him come and tell me to move so that everybody sees me get moved up. Then I get the glory. Oh, look. George got to move up six seats.

Man, he must be special. That’s not how Jesus told this parable. It wasn’t so that you could use it as a great strategy to glorify yourself. That wasn’t what this was all about. A person today in this upside down world looks at it and says, oh, man.

What a great strategy. Yeah. That’s what I’m gonna do so I get all the glory. That’s not what Jesus meant by that. When Jesus said, you go and occupy the last place, and then when someone comes and tells you to move up, it’s because God is doing it in his time.

God is doing his time. Jesus wasn’t giving them any kind of strategy to glorify themselves. He was saying, don’t lift yourself up. God will do that when he’s ready. When God wants to elevate you to a position that he can use you in, he will move you.

You don’t have to do it yourself. You humble yourself and you put God first. And one day God says, okay. This is the day. This is the day.

You know what? Levi, I’m moving you up to be a preacher. And so today, I’m gonna elevate you up to this position. Man, that’s pretty pretty awesome. Right?

Get elevated up to the preacher level. You know what that really means? You gotta be even more humble because it’s not an elevation. You’re still a servant now. You’re a greater servant.

That’s what he really wants to do for you. But God will put you in the place that he wants you to be. Stop seeking that spot. Seek whatever God wants from you. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Don’t seek glory from the world. Seek glory from God. Humble yourself. This upside down world says me, me, me. But we need to say, you, you, you, God.

It’s all about you. And you know what? When we think about God and we put God first, you know what else we do? We put others first. We put others first.

How many times by letting someone else go ahead of you does it make an impression that they wonder what’s all about? Maybe they see something they never saw before. God will elevate you when he’s ready. We think about people like David, King David. Right?

King David. He was groomed to be the king from his birth. Right? He was gonna be the king all along. He was the greatest of all of his brothers.

No. David was considered the least of all in his family. In fact, when they came seeking, when the prophet came seeking, they didn’t even introduce David to start with because David was the youngest. He was the littlest. He was the most unworthy of the whole group.

But when he came before the prophet, God said, that’s the one. That’s the one. He was the least in his family, but he’s gonna be the greatest in mind. I’m gonna use him. I’m gonna raise him up, and he raised him up to be king.

Did he always do the right thing? No. He had some some egregious sin just like the rest of us, but God said, David is a man after my own heart, And he was one who was never thought of in that way by the world, but God brought him up. We also think about Gideon. Gideon.

Gideon was the poorest and weakest clan. In that clan, that clan was the poorest and the weakest of all of Israel, but God chose Gideon to liberate all of Israel. And then who can forget about Joseph? The eleventh son of Jacob. His brothers thought so little of him, they sold him into slavery and then told his father he was dead.

He got killed by a wild animal. Didn’t want anything to do with him. He was sold into slavery, and then even sold into slavery. He was they lied about and got thrown into prison. His life just continued to be less and less and less, it seemed like.

But when the time came, God brought him up out of the prison. He put him in charge. He let him be raised up. And because of the way he was raised up, he not only was able to save his family from starving to death, but he was able to honor God and all of Egypt. The world would have said, nah, Joseph.

No. God said, Joseph, yes. Joseph is the one. That one who you consider weak and not strong enough and not a position that should be glorified, I put him in the highest place because those that are last should be first. Those who are first who that’s all they seek.

That’s all they look for. That’s all they want. It’s glory in this world. They’re gonna be last. They’re gonna be knocked down.

They’re not gonna be used. God uses the least to show his strength and his glory. Think about it like this. Why did God choose David to come be king instead of if you remember, when the prophet came up, first one he saw was strong, good looking man. I mean, somebody looked like he would be perfect for a king.

God said, not that one. Why is it that God would want to use someone who was considered weak or someone who would be considered lowly instead of someone who’s considered high. Well, the reality is when you take that person that has all of this and you put them in that position and you elevate them up, it becomes about them. It becomes about them. They’re the ones that then receive the glory.

It’s my success and my merit, and I’m the one that got this position. So it’s all about me. But the one that God elevates that’s been humble, the one that sees that no one in this world really thinks that much of me, that I’m not that kind of person in this world, but God raised them up and he puts them there. They said the only way I can do this is through God. And they give everything to God, and his glory is what’s seen.

His strength is what’s seen. Everything about Jesus and God is seen and not the person that is in the position. God says, no. No. Those who desire to be first, they’re gonna be last.

But those who are last, they’re gonna be raised up to be first because they’ll be the ones that show the glory of god in all that happens. This upside down world, it is upside down to us, but God’s kingdom is upside down to the world. God’s kingdom is upside down to the world. The world says it shouldn’t be that way. Man, no way.

You realize that how people get treated that don’t look out for themselves? Do you understand that only the people who fight and claw and step on everybody else and do they’re the ones that that move up to the top. You look at all the millionaires in the world. They’re they’re not humble people. They tell you how great they are and they they back it up by the things that they’ve done.

And so you wanna be like that. Okay. If what you seek is the glory of the world, if what you seek is things on this side of heaven, then yeah, you probably wanna be like that. But God said, it’s harder for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Just to be certain, he wasn’t talking about a place called the eye of the needle.

He was literally talking about a camel trying to pass through the eye of a needle. He said it’s harder for that to happen. Why? Because you count on you. Everything is me.

It’s all about me. I’ve told you this story several times before. I struggled so hard in math. I studied. I cried.

I studied some more. I finally went and took the test. I prayed about it before I went and took it. I passed the test. I came home.

My dad said, see how God helped you pass that test? I said, God didn’t take that test. I did. I’m the one that passed that test. It was me.

I learned very quickly that was not the right way to think. And it wasn’t because of, you know, getting my rear end tore up. It was explained. Son, you remember how hard everything was and how you couldn’t remember the right order of things and you were having struggles? Yeah.

Remember how we prayed about all that? Yeah. When you got ready to take the test, did you remember all of that? Yeah. That’s because God helped you remember it.

Therefore, God’s the one that helped you pass that test. It wasn’t on you. Wow. Okay. That’s a humbling moment.

Right? God has those for us all the time. All the time when we look at things and we think, look what I did. But then look behind all that and see, did you really do that? Or did it come from somewhere else?

Did God do it? The reality, if we give God the glory for all the things that happen, then everybody sees him high and lifted up. That’s the world that God wants. That’s his kingdom lifted up. That’s upside down to this world, but it’s upside right in God’s world.

Put God first, his glory, his kingdom. When we show that and we live that, other people see Jesus in us. Now listen, it’s not an easy thing to do. Oh, come on preacher, you know, you just gotta put God first. That’s easy.

Is it really that easy? You know how many times as I stand at that back door and people are leaving, people will shake my hand? Man, great sermon, preacher. You did a great job. That was wonderful.

You did awesome. You know how easy that would be for my head to go like this. Oh, man. I’m so good. You see how good I am?

All these people think I’m great the way that I preach. All this is wonderful. Very quickly, I learned my response most of the time if you ever listen to what I say is, praise God, not me. Praise God. It was his words.

Praise God. He’s the one that gave me the words to say. Praise God. I’m just the vessel that he used to get the word out. It’s not me.

It’s God. But it’s hard to live that way when the world keeps telling you how great you are. When the standards of the world keeps saying you’re wonderful. When you keep looking at everything and thinking, man, I accomplished this and I accomplished that. It’s pretty hard to to humble yourself if you’re not constantly thinking about it.

You have to constantly think about that. Constantly give it to god every day. It’s easy to say, well, I got this. I’m strong enough to handle it. I’m good enough to take care of it.

You know, I know that I got all the awards and it’s all me, but it’s not all you. God’s word says, if you will humble yourself and pray and turn from your wicked ways what? Turn from my wicked ways? If you will humble yourself and pray and turn from your wicked ways and seek my face, then I will hear from heaven and forgive your sin and heal your land. You see, we’re such sinful people, but we keep trying to put ourselves first.

Humble yourself and pray and turn from your wicked ways. God will use you. God will use you. Well, I don’t know how God could possibly use me, preacher. I mean, I’m good at this and that, but I’m not good at talking to people about God.

I’m not good at at doing all of those other things. So, how is it that that we can do this? Do you really want to be used by God? Do you really want to be used by God? Or do you only want the glory of being recognized by the world?

That’s a choice you have to decide. Do you really want to be used by God, or you only wanna be recognized by the world? The world might recognize you and give you cash awards, give you titles, give you certificates, all these material things that the world might do. Is that what you really want, or do you really want to be recognized by God? Do you want God to say, well done, good and faithful servant?

Do you want God to look at you and say, that’s what I want from you. I want you to serve me in that way because I’m gonna use that to reach other people. You know, the greatest thing as a pastor the greatest thing as a pastor is to pour out God’s word and see someone come and give their life to God. And it’d be easy to go, man, look what I did today. But I don’t do that.

Because God showed me very quickly, it’s not you. I used you, but it’s me. The greatest thing is to be used by God. Another story that I’ve told you plenty of times before, Bill’s wife, Barbara, asked me to come and preach at the girls GA camp. Bunch of little girls.

How am I gonna do that? But I went and preached to a bunch of little girls. And I tried to relate to them the best that I could. And I thought the whole time that they probably thought I was corny and, you know, they didn’t understand anything I said. I opened up an invitation and girls’ pop I was poured out of the chairs and looking for a counselor to talk to, and they just kept coming out and coming out and coming out.

I just sat down and wept. I don’t remember the number, but out of the group that came, it was a very large percentage of the girls that came that gave their life to Christ that night. I sat down and cried. I said, god, why would you use somebody like me to do that? I didn’t even know what I was doing.

God said, that’s why I was able to use you better. You didn’t know what you were doing. You just relied on me. That’s the whole point. Rely on God.

Do you really wanna be used by God, or you just want the glory from the world? God’s people are to be humble. We’re to be humble. One more time. God’s people are going are required to be humble.

Are you ready to live that humble life? You see, humility is something that the world says that’s that’s weakness. It’s nothing but weakness. God says humility is takes a lot of strength to humble yourself, to recognize that you are not the greatest that I am, but that I wanna use you. That I wanna use you and you and you and you.

I wanna use every one of you. I want to use you. How can God use me? I’m older than 50. My legs don’t work right.

My back hurts all the time. I can’t hear. How’s god gonna use me? However he chooses. God can use you however he chooses.

It might be in when you would least expect it that your testimony leads someone to god. I’m I’m I’m still young. I’m still trying to figure it out. I don’t even know what I’m gonna do. I’m going to college, and I don’t even have a major.

How’s god gonna use me? However he chooses. He’s going to take you and use you however he chooses if you humble yourself and say, okay, god. It’s not me, but it’s you. Show me.

He will show you. I will tell you this a little warning. If you do that if you do that, if you say, god, I’m ready. I want you to use me however you choose. I want to be used by you to glorify you.

He will. The warning is you may not necessarily think that the way he’s gonna use you is what you wanted. How many times has someone said, God, I want you to use me. And God said, great. I want you to go to Africa.

Hold up. I’ve never been out of Mobile. I want you to go to Africa. I want you to be a missionary for me there. God, I want you to use me.

Okay? I want you to start a, a group, a bible study group on on the secular college campus that you’ll be going to. Wait a minute. I’m gonna be brand new there. I don’t want people looking at me all funny.

God said, that’s what he wants. Do you know some of the greatest revivals in history started on college campuses? God can use you for that. Maybe he says, I want you to be a mom. I want you to be a mom and a wife, and that’s what I want you to do.

And I want you to teach those children that I give you how to follow God because you know what? I’m gonna use one of them and make them Billy Graham. We don’t know how God’s going to use us, but we have to humble ourselves and stop looking for our own glory and let him use us however he chooses. We have a congregation that’s predominantly senior adults. We have a congregation that’s predominantly that is greatly smaller than it once was.

All congregations in The United States Of America these days are greatly smaller than they once were because the world has such an influence that people are turning away from God. Today, you have this opportunity. Are you ready to humble yourself and live this humble life that God might grow his kingdom? That we might see a revival, that we might see people come to know the Lord, that we might see people come back that have strayed away, that we might see churches packed out because God is moving in our country. If you’re ready, he will use you.

The world is upside down. The world says no. The question that I have for you today before you can even begin to answer that question is, do you know god in the first place? Have you ever met him? Have you ever given your life to him upfront?

Because listen to me. You cannot humble yourself and be serving God if you don’t know the one that you’re trying to serve. Sometimes the world thinks that we just have to come to church, and then automatically we’re gonna be a Christian because we walk through the door. That’s not the case. God says, if you confess with your mouth Jesus as lord and believe that I raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

You have to confess him as lord. You have to give your life to him. Lord means master. And if he’s the master, that makes you his servant. Are you the servant of God today?

Do you know him? If you know him, are you truly serving him, or are you simply walking around with a t shirt? You’re walking around with a t shirt that says, I joined the club. That’s as far as you got. You know, when I was in high school, I joined the club.

It was called FAA. Anybody know what that is? FFA. Sorry. FFA.

Future Farmers of America. I didn’t wanna be no farmer. I joined the club because they got a cool jacket. I got to wear the jacket, and they let you carry a pocket knife if you’re in Future Farmers of America. So I joined Future Farmers of America.

I didn’t wanna be no farmer. I had no no ideas at all about being a farmer, but I joined that club, put on the jacket, and walked around. And that’s what some people do with Christianity today. They say, oh, I joined the club. I became a Christian.

I’m gonna put on the jacket and walk around. But if you ask them, well, what does it mean to be a Christian? I don’t know. I just wanted the jacket. I don’t know what that means.

Yes. I I I gave my life to Jesus. I know I did that, but then after that, I haven’t ever done anything with that. Some just wanna walk in the church and say, well, I checked that box. They saw me go to church today, so I’m good.

You don’t know Jesus if that’s all you’re doing. The reality is for every single one of us, just joining the club’s not enough. We gotta be active members. We gotta be members that desire to serve god every day. And not just desire to serve him, but we carry on what he calls us to do.

I know. I know. I can’t do what I used to do, but you can still do something. What can you do? If you can’t do anything else, you know what you need to do?

Pray. Do you understand that prayer is one of the most important things you can possibly do? Prayer is one of the things that gets all the other people moving. I I can’t do much. I do you know how to use a phone?

Call people up. Tell them about the church. Tell them about what’s going on. Check on them. See if they’re okay.

Be in in in God’s ministry in that way. You can do that. Maybe you’re young and you say, I don’t know enough yet. I hadn’t figured it out. Well, guess what?

Sanctification goes all the way through until you step into glorification. So we’re all still figuring it out. You just gotta be willing. You just gotta be willing. Are you willing?

Are you willing to live upside down in this world so that you can be upside right in the next world? Are you willing to do that? Moms show us a great example of humbling themselves and serving others and putting the things that they need first. We can be just the same way and serve others and put God first. We can do that very thing.

Every one of us is able to do that. So I challenge you today. Are you ready to humble yourself and to live for God on a daily basis? Are you ready to say, I’m here, Lord. Use me.

I hope you do. But warning, if you say that and you mean that, he’s gonna do it. He’s gonna do it. It’s not just for show. He’s gonna do it.

It might be scary, but it’ll be great. God will take care of it.