Redeeming Greatness

In my response to Pastor Mark Driscoll’s sermon about greatness talked about in Luke 9:46-50, the way God loves us and teaches us is never ending. Not only was I learning about the social state our society has become, but how wrong and so set apart from God it is. The sins of omission and commission are so vividly present today that it makes the battle for God so worth it and almost more intriguing to be a part of. By using comparisons and social media to give me praise or allow me to feel content, I have come to learn that it’s only a whisper of a subconscious high, feeling a sense of belonging, which dies off as soon as someone else is attaining more status or popularity.  This feeling is real, but is it the way it should have been? Or is it a human condition which we have allowed ourselves to use it as an excuse to continually be something we’re not? As I sit here in the coffee shop on my HP laptop with a blackberry in my pocket, have I acquired these electronics for status, or because I’ve truly worked for them?  A brick phone with an antenna and a no name computer could potentially accomplish the same tasks, but would that be rejecting greatness? No. I believe I have worked hard and modestly for these in order to enjoy the world. Not to love it, but to use the world to my advantage. I have been able to communicate with others about God’s grace and enjoy doing it. By working on humbling myself I have been able to not achieve complete greatness, but to continually strive after the identity of Christ which is in itself perfection.  It’s a gift I have been given not because I deserve it, but because by the grace of God and the death of His son Jesus Christ.  There are areas I need to be working on; the way I compare my life to those older, richer, and wiser. In regards, there are also areas in which I believe I am satisfied in; learning from a wise mans rebuke, looking up to men of God and going about my life in a strive for something better which is Jesus Christ.