make it big

Sunday August 29th, Proverbs 25: 6 Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among great men; 7 it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman. What does the Lord require of us but to show justice, love mercy and walk humbly before your God. Then we don’t we risk possibility of being made a bit more humble than we would wish. God’s way of greatness in the world is, and has always been the great reversal. The first shall be last and the last shall be first, the greatest among you shall be the servant of all, on and on throughout scripture up to and including the King of all Creation, the Savior of the World, the King of the Jews dying on a cross. This is based on the truism that for the most part, when one wants to get ahead in the world they will base their success on rising above the other. All too often we find success comes at the expense of others. We have been able to work up pretty good blinders in this life. We only tend to see the success, not the victims left in the path of success. God calls us to the win/win world of serving others, the world calls us to the win/lose of making it big.