This is Max Lakato. God's cure for the common life includes a strong dose of servitude.

Timely reminder. As you celebrate your unique design, be careful. Don't so focus on what you love to do

that you neglect what needs to be done. A 3 a.m. diaper change fits in very few sweet spots.

Visiting your sick neighbor might not come naturally to you.

Still, the sick need to be encouraged and diapers need changing. The world needs servants,

people like Jesus, who did not come to be served but to serve. He chose remote Nazareth over the

center stage, Jerusalem. His dad's carpenter shop over a marble-columbed palace.

In three decades of anonymity over a life of popularity, he selected prayer over sleep.

The wilderness over the Jordan, feisty apostles over obedient angels. I'd have gone with the angels

given the choice. Not Jesus. He with the angels, given the choice,

not Jesus.

He picked the people.

He came to serve.

May we do the same.