“To Those Called To Be Kings…”

Running From The Greatness Call: Greatness is something that resonates with all humans but that most seems to avoid. Serious Christians tend to emphasize the core values of humility and servant-hood as opposed to greatness. They do this either out of a sense of genuine but misplaced meekness or out of fear that greatness is elusive and cannot be attained. God has not excluded his people from Greatness, He just redefined it in manners that contradict and make meaningless the popular understanding of the word. God’s definition of Greatness is at the core of the Christian Call: We are called to be Kings!

Scriptures and the Greatness Call: Consider the following passages, in Exodus 19:1-8, God made a bold declaration: “I want a Kingdom peopled by Priests.” In 1Peter 2:9, the Holy Apostle re-phrased this and stated “You are Kings who are Priests.” By the time we got to the book of Revelation, the lid was totally off the secret, John the Revelator said that Jesus “hath made us Kings and Priest unto God and His Father…” (Rev. 1:5). So, I write today to those Called to be Kings.

Our Lord & the Call of Greatness: Think about this: One of the final acts of our Lord was to validate Greatness. Speaking to His disciples on the night he was betrayed, Jesus assumed that there will be those among His disciples who will be “the greatest … and the chief…” He however defined the greatest in a manner that is different from the world. The greatest must be as “he that serves, as he that is the least…” Lk. 22:26 – 28.

The Call Today: God is calling some of us to True Greatness. God is calling us to a true life of service. The Truly Great is like the Father who at Creation modeled greatness by walking into the darkness and wading through the mud. He is like the Son, who at the beginning chose the role of a Redeemer, a Lamb to be slaughtered in Silence, a King that will be crowned with Thorns. The Truly Great is to be like the Spirit who is Powerful and Brilliant but will not pursue glory. He the Spirit of Grace, bestows Unction but will not demand Worship. He rather points the seeker to the Son, who lifts up the Father, who in turn gives all honor to the Son, who tells us that all things is done by the Power of the Spirit and the Pattern of the Father. Awareness and Commitment and the Capacity to Lift up and Serve the Other… this is Greatness.

Let us think about these things, let us think about “the other” to whom we have been sent. Maybe there is around us the weakened other, or the disgraced other, or the powerless other, or the possessed other, or the hopeless other, or the helpless other, or the lost, the sick, the weary, the sinful, the forsaken… those who will be King will “Serve the other” who cannot repay the service.

When we so serve, we will hear at the end of the days… well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the Kingdom prepared by your Father…

Originally written for Victory Court RCCG February 9th 2008