This passage could be entitled, "How To Miss the Entire Point of Three Years of Training." The disciples were often in conflict over who had what they thought were the most favored positions in serving the Lord.
On the road to Jesus' ministry headquarters in Capernaum, one time His disciples began to argue about who was the greatest among them. We're told that "After they arrived at Capernaum and settled in a house, Jesus asked his disciples, 'What were you discussing out on the road?' But they didn't answer, because they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, 'Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else'" (Mark 9:33-35).
Would cleaning fish for dinner be less important than healing a dozen people in the village? What would you rather do?
I read that John Newton, a former slave-trader and the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," gave an illustration of what it means to purely serve the Lord. By this I mean, serving the Lord solely to serve the Lord, being unaffected by the task. As I read I thought of you and wanted to share an idea that expanded my thinking about what serving the Lord means.
Newton said, "If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's will."
The mission the Lord sends you on is less important than the heart you take with you.
"The call of Christ is always a promotion." (A.W. Tozer)
"The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub." (Henry Ward Beecher)
(Commentary Mark Martin)