Greatness

I dont think there's even a question about Michael Jordan being the greatest basketball player of all time. With the NBA Finals ending last week, I once again was reminded of this truth. Everytime Kobe Bryant made a tough shot all I heard was "that reminds me of MJ". And if I hear one more person say that Lebron James is better than Michael Jordan, I might be tempted to enforce some physical harm on that person. With that said, greatness is a strange thing. In my opinion it's easy to define greatness in the world. Michael Jordan (Championships, MVP's, and Scoring Titles), Tom Hanks (Oscar Winner and his movies have made MILLIONS), Lynard Skynard (Millions of records sold, Millions of ticket sales for their tours all over the world, and of course FREE BIRD), Ric Flair (16 Time World Champion WOOOOOOO).

Jeremy Kingsly in "Be Last" points out that in the Christian world greatness is defined a little different. If Jesus is supposed to be the GREATEST Christian ever, then there must be something we can see in His life that is great.

There is absolutely nothing great about Jesus' birth. He couldnt even make it into the hotel b/c there wasnt enough room. So He was born outside in a dirty manger. There were no fireworks, no big announcement, and no big celebration. I would think that God would want to make a big announcement that His son had came to the earth. Maybe a little earthquake, darkness for a couple of days, or even a big trumpet sound. But there was none of that.

One day Jesus had a great teaching oppertunity that He took advantage of. His boys were arguing about who would be the greatest then Jesus dropped a bombshell, "The first will be last and the last will be first."

WOW, Jesus was showing us greatness His entire life. Everything that Jesus did while He was on earth was for us. He was putting us first and all the time BECOMING GREAT.