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“And being in the house He [the Lord Jesus] asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest” (Mark 9:33-34).
In our verse today we see the real problem with the disciples. Instead of wanting to see God glorified, they were concerned about themselves, as to who should be the greatest. If they had been in God’s presence by prayer and fasting, they would have realized how wrong this attitude was, and they would have confessed it as sin. But when they wanted the glory for themselves, the Lord Jesus would not give them power over demons.
Sadly, this same attitude is sometimes a problem among Christians today. We want to be important before others, instead of realizing that we are called to be like the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus had to remind those disciples that the one who wanted to be first should be the servant of all. That is what the Lord Jesus did when He was in this world; He was the Servant of all. We should always be thinking of God’s glory, not our own.
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