Big Fish

So many people want to be great.

They want to be the big fish in a big pond.

They want to have all the other little fish following them.

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I mean, let's be honest... who hasn't wanted to be the big fish sometime in our lives?

I know I have.

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But then I look at the Big Fish that I am suppossed to follow.. Jesus.

And I see how He left His Big Pond and came here to our little one.

And I see how He left His Big Fish-ness and became a little fish

by becoming like us in our humanity.

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And while everyone else around Him, even His disciples,

were trying to swim to the front of the line

to prove they were the biggest fish...

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He was gently reminding them:

the last shall be first;

and

the least of these shall be the greatest.

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So maybe I don't need to be a big fish after all.

And maybe you don't either.

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Swim on, little fish.

Follow the Big Fish wherever He leads.

And know there is a Great Big Pond waitng for you!