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It's easy to be self-centered. We think about the world through the lens of how things impact us. We look out for ourselves. I wonder what percentage of pictures taken in the world every day are pictures of ourselves.
This passage has a tenderness to it -- Jesus sees a woman who is sick, and he takes her hand, and then she uses her freedom to serve. It's the same thing Jesus uses his freedom for -- to serve the ones he loves. Jesus takes it so far as to die on the cross for the ones that he loves. Service is what happens when we are freed from worrying about ourselves and focus ourselves on those around us, and Jesus gives us that freedom.
It's a hard thing to think about ourselves less, but that's the invitation -- to go into the world looking for ways to serve one another, and to find delight in the chance to serve.
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