"For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45)

"For even the Son of man
came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a
ransom for many" (Mark 10:45). Is this spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ
reflected today in confessors of His name? One often hears the complaint of how
little was gotten out of a particular meeting or of how little blessing was
realized from a message from the Word. It is certainly true that there is a
"famine … of hearing the words of the Lord" (Amos 8:11). Yet the
complaining spirit of how little one received is the opposite of His who came
to give. What did you come to give —at the meeting where you got so little?
What prayer for blessing and preparation of heart was there on your part?
Perhaps you might even have been used of God as a channel of blessing to others
if not so bent on receiving for yourself.

"He that watereth shall be
watered also himself" (Prov. 11:25) is assurance enough that if you will
be watered with blessings, one sure way is to seek to bless others. Paul wrote
the Roman saints of his desire to impart unto them "some spiritual
gift" (Rom. 1:11). He "labored more abundantly" than all his
fellow apostles. Yet, it remained for the Son of man alone to minister to
others and "to give His life a ransom for many." We beseech those many
to be filled with His spirit of giving, and then see if greater blessing does
not result.

"And He died for all, that
they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them
and has been raised" (2 Cor. 5:15, JND, trans.).