I recently heard someone speak about human’s search for significance.  I think the message really hit home with me because greatness is something we all long for; it is written on our very hearts.

But often times we don’t know how to achieve greatness.  How do/can we even measure significance?

When we look at a sampling societies across the centuries, kings, aristocrats, generals, the upper echelon, crème-of-the-crop, all seem to teach us it’s how many people that serve you that makes your great.

But Jesus offers us a different measure of greatness in Mark 9:35.  He says, (I paraphrase) that if you want to be great, you must be a servant.

So maybe it’s not how many people that serve you that makes you great, but how many people you serve that makes you great.

Then he says that when we welcome/serve people as if they are children, we are welcoming God himself.  (verse 37)

Which begs the questions, if they are children, whose children are they?  Which brings up the next question, why are we welcoming God, if we welcome them as children? Which might be the point, to create an association between people/children and Father God; to remind us that all people are made in God’s image, innately valuable, deserving dignity, not because of WHO they are but because of WHOSE they are.

When we serve people we acknowledge, through our actions, that they have worth. In the process we spend our lives on things that will outlast our lives, the greatest use of life!

So may our eyes be transformed until we see people as God does and with new vision may we seek to live lives of service therefore GREAT LIVES!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love)

LOVE. JOY. PEACE.

Zach