You may have noticed the quote a the right of each blog by E. Stanley Jones, Most people plot and plan themselves into mediocrity, while now and again somebody forgets himself into greatness.
I love that quote. It is the mark of God. Surely we realize earth's measuring system of greatness and success is tied directly to flesh's hip. Earth's marks operate by comparison; beauty contests, sales strategies, educational progress....each includes the very trait God warned causes people to live without accurate understanding...II Cor. 10:12.
Forgets himself into greatness? Forgets? Isn't that a weakness? Wouldn't "nameless" and "unnoticed" or "forgotten" be possible cousins of "forgets"? Shouldn't greatness be pulled back when using that term and maybe insert goes nowhere? Forgets himself and goes nowhere?
Yet the nameless woman at the well forgot herself and led and entire city to the Friendly One. A small sort stranded in a tree was called down to become chief host at a private party for Him. The out-of-sight out-of-mind prodigal has aroused millions to respond to the Lord's call to return home.
My experience in the kingdom causes me to highly regard Jones' wisdom. Church isn't about us. It is all about Him. It isn't about budgets, and goals, and events. It is all about Him. Now and again we hear of fantastic moves of God among us. Every time it will be said that it was able to happen because the people involved regarded others...never themselves.
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