What does it mean to be great? Do I even desire greatness? Should we desire greatness? Greatness from the world's perspective may be seen as attaining a high position of power, or accomplishing important things, or someone who is famous.
Regardless of your motives, part of who we are by God's design, desires to be great. Whether your motives are good or evil, we are all created by the "Great I AM".
Those who claim to be followers of Christ, are called to be like God, "great". In Mark 9:33-37 we find a story of Jesus' own disciples not reflecting the likeness of Jesus. In fact, Jesus asks them what they are arguing about and they kept silent because they were busy arguing which one of them was the "greatest". Even their motives were wrong.
Our motives may be masked when we serve in church and try to look good, or when we behave well in front of our bosses, but Jesus knows our hearts. We can't fool the Master. Jesus himself reveals the motives of their hearts by taking a child and embracing the child in his arms and saying that anyone who welcomes a child in His name welcomes Jesus.
A child is none of those things described in the world's perspective of greatness. A child is weak. A child is dependent on his father. A child is not seen as important. If you want to be great, Jesus says we must be like little children who are weak and dependent on God the Father.
Lord I desire to be more like you.
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