GREATNESS DEMYSTIFIED

When you hears the word greatness what readily comes to your mind? Someone or something big, large, and very important right? Well, you are not wrong; but you have taken a step in unraveling what true greatness is. Over the years, familiarity and people’s desire for greatness has made it a cliché, to the point that its real sense and essence is fast fading, giving way for people’s greed, covetousness and unhealthy ambition for materialism. Hence the need to simply unearth the brain behind true greatness and to demystify it to the core so that achieving greatness will not elude us.

Just like success, most people regardless of socio-cultural, political or religious backgrounds and affiliations desire greatness and always want to associate with greatness, yet only few people are ready to know what true greatness really entails and its corresponding cost. Scattered through the pages of history and the chronicles of the past are men that defined greatness, identified with it, paid the necessary price and left outstanding legacies. To them, greatness is not in things but in people, it was not about what they had, but who they were when it comes to depositing in the lives of others.

Greatness can mean different things to different people, but after all have been said and done, it all boils down to servant, selfless services. It is founded on the passion of serving what you have to your generation in a unique way that no one could replicate but you. Greatness is when you release yourself to serve people who will not even appreciate you or have all it takes to pay you back; it is that passionate service that is not motivated by any sort of motivation – covert or overt. Greatness is prioritizing God first, others second then yourself last.  Greatness is when you view other people beyond their weaknesses just as God would have looked pass through yours. In fact, true greatness cannot be adequately defined, described and delineated by words but by actions and living it out.

Scanning through history, one will see conspicuously that greatness is not the matter of who had what but who did what, it wasn’t an issue of who gathered what but who affected people  the most. Honestly, for us to see greatness from a different point of view today that is not congruent with the foundation already laid will be a big mistake with far-reaching consequences. Greatness will always have a lot to do with service and servanthood. It entails a deliberate selfless service; serving one’s ability, gift and talent to better the lives of other people. The hallmark of greatness is identifying a need in your own little locale and meeting same even at your own inconvenience.

The greatest service ever rendered to human kind are the lowliest, such are the services born out of passion to touch lives and the vision to see people fulfill their God given destiny. Greatness is not measured by how big, how highly placed, wealthy or knowledgeable a person is. These are limited and parochial scales to measure greatness because greatness is when a person empties himself/herself serving others. Your greatness is not what you have, it I what you give.

Greatness and servanthood are two sides of the same coin; it would be disastrous for one to isolate them. Greatness is sacrificial; it is writing your name in gold in the heart of men through your little yet mighty humble deeds. Greatness is often conceive behind the scene, from the womb of passion for meeting people’s need, but in terms of manifestation, it does so in the open leaving life changing marks upon the life of people with far reaching and rippling blessings. Greatness is nothing about what you have but everything about who you are especially from the inside. Greatness is a fire kindled from the inside, burning in the heart, flaming and blazing furiously that the carrier cannot contain it alone anymore; but he/she is constantly lighting up the life of people, knowing fully that helping other people’s fire burn will not in any way cause his/her own to die out.

Worthy of echoing here is the divine reality that greatness is in everybody. Thus, it will be too much an assumption to say only few people are destined for greatness. Again all of us are capable of being great and achieving greatness, because greatness has nothing to do with what we have but everything to do with who we are, who we are has nothing to do with what/who people call us but everything with who lives inside of us. Therefore, your source, level and measure of greatness is largely dependent on who you carry from the inside. Because every fabric of what we are made of is created in God’s image and His seed lives in us, our greatness is not an issue of probability but that of possibility and certainty.

To cap it all, true greatness that will speak for you in your absence and stand for you in eternity is God living in you, using you as a vessel to reach out to a world that is broken and hurting through small, humble, lowliest, subtle and most often unidentifiable ways in the sight of men. You are destined for greatness; can you please release yourself to be another template of greatness by allowing God to reach out through your words, hands, and feet? Your answer to this question can change your life and the world at large. 

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