AFFIRMATIONS DIVINE

Who’s the greatest?  Admit it, that’s what everybody seems to want to know.

People spend all kinds of time trying to decide.  All over the television you see shows dedicated to the greatest wrestlers, footballers, fighters, politicians, gold diggers, bounty hunters, and on and on.  People even get in heated arguments about it.  If I had a dollar for every time I asked Mike to,”turn that T.V. down”, I could buy a lot of Ice cream, (I’ve been craving sweets lately), but I digress.

Now I don’t mind the “Who’s the greatest” topic quite so much when it comes to singers, dancers, or even dress designers.  Needless to say, it’s a pretty universal question.

Even the disciples thought so.  But when Jesus asked them about it, they kept quiet.  That’s probably what I would’ve done too.  Even now, it takes me quite a while to figure some things out, but Sunday morning while the preacher was giving his sermon, I read ahead.

These are the verses that really caught my attention.  In answer to his disciples question about who was the greatest, Jesus said, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”  And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,”Whoever receives one such child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Wow, that makes things pretty clear.  Connie and Joey Fowler, my dear sister and brother-in-law, are “The Greatest”.  They are in China right this minute receiving Maelie Barbara into their family.

On this coming Friday they will fly back to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with their new daughter.

Would everyone who reads this please do me a favor?  Will you please pray for Connie and Joey, and Maelie as they travel home, and transition into their new family life .

In the eyes of Jesus, that would make you “The Greatest“!

Robyn