Becoming GREAT.

So if you don’t know by now we as Group 1 Crew have taken up the assignment to stir up dreams in the lives of who ever we come across. I personally discover more and more every day what my dreams mean to me, and the importance of why God has injected my very being with these desires and goals that I want to so passionately achieve.

I was reading Matthew 20:20-28 and here we have a story of a mother that wanted the best for her 2 children John and Jacob, who were 2 of Christ’s closest disciples, and because of that very reason she asked Jesus if he can sit one of them to the right of his throne and the other to his left. Right away he responded and said He can’t make that decision because those positions have already been given to who ever his Father has created them for. Now the mothers request wasn’t a bad one cause just like every mother she wanted the best for her kids but what concerned Jesus was her thought process. She thought Jacob and John could obtain these positions because of who she knew. If we continue to read further down it talks about how the disciples got upset because they heard of what John and Jacobs mother did. So Jesus rounded up his disciples and said to them, every one else might run there kingdom like this, where rulers have great power over their people but the Kingdom of Heaven doesn’t play by those rules. Who ever wants to become great must first serve and whoever wants to be first must become a slave.

In other words in Gods kingdom it’s not about who you know. Sometimes we get upset and frustrated because you have a dream you want to see become reality but you feel that you don’t know the right people or have the right connections that will help you achieve your dreams, but Jesus said don’t focus on those things what should be your main concern is serving. Instead of focusing so much on building up our own empires or the materialistic gain a superstar life has to offer, our focus should be on how can we use our gifts, talents, strengths to serve the world that we live in. If we were to shift our thought process and not worry on personal gain but stay focused on using our dreams to better the world we live in then that is when we set our selves up for GREATNESS! Why wouldn’t God then want to promote us, bless us with the finances we need, or bring the right people in our path that will help us get closer to our dreams. If we use our gifts and our dreams to serve, he didn’t say we would then become good or better, but when we serve our gifts to the world he will then take care of making us GREAT!