I used to skateboard when I was in middle school, and I remember the first time I ever dropped in, which is when you go down a ramp at a skate park. It took me awhile, but it clicked when I realized that I had to go down in order to go up. You see, in skating your natural reaction when going down a steep ramp is to pull back as you going down, but this makes you fall. So the only way to make it all the way down is to lean into the board. It’s kind of a backwards principle, but it is true for your Christian life too.
The Bible teaches that to become first you have to be last. In Mark 10, Jesus says, “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave to all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” It is clear that Jesus had a different way of thinking of success than most of us do. If you looked at Jesus from a worldly perspective you would think He was a loser. He left home at the age of 30, never had a girlfriend, and didn’t have a job. But He knew the truth about what it meant to be first eternally. If you want to succeed in life, you have to be last, you have to be a servant. This is the backwards way of looking at life that changed the ancient world. Imagine what would happened if we all decided to serve each other and put others before ourselves? What would your work, home, or family look like? Everything changes in every aspect of our lives when we realize what Jesus was saying. How about you? Are you going to be first here...or first in eternity? 
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