Let's Do Something Great Today!

"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Mtt. 23:12).

“I die before my time and my body shall be given back to the earth and devoured by worms. What an abysmal gulf between my deep miseries and the eternal kingdom of Christ. I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of myself and of Alexander and of Caesar, should have vanished into thin air, and a Judean peasant, Jesus, should be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Everyone wants to accomplish great things and leave their mark on the world. Following His example, Christ's disciples have a different game plan...

"And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phl. 2:8-11).

Let's do something great today! As we humble ourselves by surrendering something of our great agenda, money, time, talent, gifts, or any other highly prized part of our super-important lives in order to bless someone more needy than us, the power of God is unleashed to accomplish something far greater in this world than we could ever imagine. 

"Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mtt. 20:26-28).

If we humble ourselves like Christ did, someone will be blessed and God will be glorified. I can't think of anything greater we might accomplish today than that!