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“Finding True Greatness” by @Kaala
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This message is just Jesus. No frills, no spills…just Jesus. So much of our discussion and understanding of Jesus comes from his actions on our behalf, on what he did for us. And what he did was big there’s no doubt. Planet changing big, country changing, city changing, my life changing, YOUR life changing big.
Theologically, he made a relationship with God possible. His life provided us eternal life with God. His sacrifice opened up the door to the most holy, most inaccessible place in the universe: the presence of God.
When you think greatness, think Jesus. There is no one greater. No other name bigger than his name. Sometimes, though, we confuse true greatness with the world’s definition of great. We think we have to do this or be that or have this or don’t have that to fit a secular definition of greatness.
There was a short piece written a while back by an unknown author titled, “One Solitary Life” that lists all the things Jesus DIDN’T do that we would normally associate with a successful and complete life. The author says:
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn’t go to college. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of these things one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was only 33 when public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. When he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race, the leader of mankind’s progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on earth as much as that One Solitary Life.
The life of Jesus isn’t validated by worldly standards. His credentials, and ours, come through a life lived in service to God.
The gift of God to us is eternal life through Jesus. Your life is no longer your own. You may or may not be called to affect the entire world like Jesus did. But you are called to impact your world, in the place, with the people that God has put in your life. At home, at work, in your city, let God use your solitary life.
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