Everyone seem to want to chase greatness. People want to get famous, to gather trophies, acquire titles, be influential, command power. And the world says you can get these by being aggressive, decisive, cunning. Some would even go to great lengths such as trading values for personal gain, compromising health for material wealth, replacing important relationships with worldly partnerships. Just to get ahead. Just to advance personal agenda. The Christian life demands otherwise.
For a Christian, there is more to being great than just having a good name and great wealth and power. Greatness is having your life impact eternity. There is true greatness in serving. Jesus Christ affirmed that service is the mark of true greatness. If I desire to be great, I must be willing to offer myself in service to others. Jesus gave us a standard to follow: greatness means to serve!
God demonstrated service and sacrifice through His Son Jesus Christ. He is my best example of compassion, humility, and selflessness. In a world that is self-absorbed, self-centered, self-exalted, God is calling me to a life of selflessness, and self-abandon. I must be willing to pay the price of true greatness.
In Matthew 20, Jesus demonstrated a life of service. He asked the blind men the very thing they want, and He willingly gave it to them. He has a compassionate heart turned towards those who are desperate for Him. In the same way, I must continue to have a desperation for God not only for the things He can do for me, but most specially for the things He can do through me.
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