A Humble Servant.

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COULD any four children be happier than these we have before us! They have been gathering wild roses by the road side, and big sister has to carry the bouquet, for it is all that the little folks can do to hold on to the donkey. What a humble creature this donkey is, serving all the children. He seems willing to go where ever the little girl wishes to guide him, and to carry his load of tiny tots, too.
I wonder if you are as ready to serve others as this patient animal is. Most boys and girls want their own way, and are often very naughty about giving up their way so as to please their play mates or their parents. It is displeasing to the Lord to have His children think only about themselves, and to be unwilling to serve others. Our natural hearts are very independent and proud, but if we love Jesus, we must seek to yield our wills to Him; He would have us love and serve one another.
We read in the Scriptures that even Christ did not seek to please Himself; His entire life was one of humility, and service for others. In Mark 6:31-4531And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him. 34And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. 35And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 36Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. 37He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? 38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. 39And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. 40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. 41And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. 42And they did all eat, and were filled. 43And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. 44And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. 45And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people. (Mark 6:31‑45), we see the loving way in which Jesus served the multitudes. One day He was very weary, and told His disciples to go with Him in a ship to a desert place where they might rest a while; but the people that had been listening to Jesus saw them departing in the ship, and ran afoot to meet Him as He reached the other side. When He found them there, He did not reprove them, but was filled with love for them and again began to teach them. His service for the people about Him was constant, teaching, healing and going about among the poorest of them. How wonderful was this untiring love of Jesus! It is the same for you today, dear children. “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day and forever.” (Heb. 13:88Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8).)
ML 08/15/1912