DAILY?READINGS: Numbers 2; Psalms 146-147; Mark 12:18-44
He took a child, and set him in the midst. Mark 9:36
He… took a towel, and girded Himself. John 13:4
He took bread, and… break it. Luke 22:19
Humility marked our Lord Jesus. He took a child to illustrate the humble attitude necessary to be His disciple. He took a towel and washed His disciples’ feet, to teach them humility in service. He took bread and broke it to symbolize His humility in salvation. He humbled Himself when He condescended from heaven’s glories to a manger in Bethlehem. But His ultimate humility, was in dying on a cross at Calvary for His enemies. —Milton Haack
He made nothing of himself, took on a servant’s form;
Found in likeness as a man, on the cross He died forlorn.—S. Peterson