God’s Idea of Greatness

God’s Idea of Greatness

Luke 3:20 “…he shut up John in prison.”

John  spent 30 years preparing for a six month ministry, followed by one and half years in prison before he was beheaded.  Many people would not consider his life very successful, yet Jesus said John was the greatest man who was ever born (Mt. 11:11).

John’s greatness didn’t lie in his own success, but in the success of another.  John stirred up the hearts of an entire nation in expectancy of their Messiah.  The ministry of Jesus owed much of its success to the work of John.  John had prepared a people to need their God (Mal. 3:1).

In our celebrity conscious society, few people want to be the backup singer or the announcer who introduces the main speaker.  We have adapted a mentality that unless we are in the limelight we have failed.  That’s not the way the Lord looks at things

When the Lord passes out rewards in heaven, we may be shocked to see how He evaluates greatness. Many  people who did not receive recognition while on earth will shine in eternity. The Lord will judge our works on what sort they were and not on what size they were (I Cor.3:13).

                                        Andrew Wommack