Mk. 10: 42-45 - Greatness by service

Mankind’s desire to be great is timeless and universal. Buried within us each is a longing to be significant. Some of us have such little hope we’ll ever matter that our potential and meaning fade like ships into the abyss. Others strive so hard for it they become ships leaving everyone else in their wake. 

There is a course both extremes may take to arrive at true significance. As long as we focus on ourselves, we’ll circle vainly around our own maelstroms. Yet when we look up and out, when we behold the Significant One, we see the course He’s charting is different. We see him moving toward others. He’s giving instead of receiving. He’s serving instead of being served. 

Does it shock us that greatness grows with service? That the more we give of ourselves, the more significant we become? As it does, we find it’s our ego sinking into the abyss. Our vessel, once only of mankind, becomes for mankind. If we ever achieve true greatness, we’ll have become such servants that we won’t even recognize it. 

If any of us wish to become great, we must be a servant of all. 

How can you serve to be great?