Seeking Greatness
My friend in Boston, Steve, referred me to a great article in another blog. Below is an excerpt. Great stuff about how to experience greatness in God's eyes. If you want to read the entire article, see:
Maybe I am not great. I freely admit I don't even really know what the word means. I do know that most of what I would expect to help make me great will really only make me shallow and self-absorbed.
God's plan for my life is to make me like Jesus. The character of Christ is one who came to serve and not to be served. Jesus was the leader who got on his knees and washed his follower's feet. He was the one who suffered and died under the hand of unjust punishment without striking back. He even forgave those who were in the act of torturing him to death.
The path to greatness is not the same as the path of Jesus. The way of the cross is the only way to follow him. He said so himself.
His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts.
This is why Jesus calls us to "Repent" in order to enter the Kingdom of God. Because "Repent" literally means to "think again". It involves re-thinking our lives and re-defining the things we value most.
I am not great. I am just me. And the real problem begins there.
The real miracle is that, someday, somehow, God's plan is to take someone like me and make me into the image of his Son.
So, every day I have to wake up and take up my cross and submit my life to Christ. There is no other way.
"If anyone would be the greatest, he must be the very least and the servant of all"- Jesus (Mark 9:35)
-- by Keith Giles, a freelance writer and church planter in California.
God's plan for my life is to make me like Jesus. The character of Christ is one who came to serve and not to be served. Jesus was the leader who got on his knees and washed his follower's feet. He was the one who suffered and died under the hand of unjust punishment without striking back. He even forgave those who were in the act of torturing him to death.
The path to greatness is not the same as the path of Jesus. The way of the cross is the only way to follow him. He said so himself.
His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts.
This is why Jesus calls us to "Repent" in order to enter the Kingdom of God. Because "Repent" literally means to "think again". It involves re-thinking our lives and re-defining the things we value most.
I am not great. I am just me. And the real problem begins there.
The real miracle is that, someday, somehow, God's plan is to take someone like me and make me into the image of his Son.
So, every day I have to wake up and take up my cross and submit my life to Christ. There is no other way.
"If anyone would be the greatest, he must be the very least and the servant of all"- Jesus (Mark 9:35)
-- by Keith Giles, a freelance writer and church planter in California.
posted by Jim Clark @ 8:09 AM
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