Who doesn't want to be great?
There is personal fulfillment in knowing that you are great at something. You can be sitting in a crowded room not standing out, but just feel good knowing that if they heard you on the drums you would blow them away. If they saw one of your drawings, or heard you sing, or saw you writing software code, they would see you different.
Whether its being a great parent, student, listener, or dancer, we want to know that there is something we do very well. For the competitive of us, we even want to experience being the absolute best. There is a quiet darkness that looms if we suspect there is nothing that we excel in. Depression and low self esteem are waiting to catch anyone who has trouble identifying their unique greatness or at least the potential for it.
Of course GOD has given us each talents that some are able to find more readily than others, but to be sure, we all have them. So, given this universal need in mankind to want to be great I find it striking that Jesus says "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."
No matter what you're great at, to be the greatest, we must find a way to serve in a significant way.
What an example Jesus laid out for us!
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I like this. So in essence, greatness is: knowing your greatness, but setting it to the side for someone else's greatness.
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