Pursuing Greatness
I want to be great.
I’m not ashamed to say it.
I believe I am one of the very few people in this world that understands what greatness takes and is willing to do what it takes to achieve it.
Most people don’t actually want greatness, or more accurately, they don’t want the sacrifice that comes with it.
And that’s okay.
But I want to be great.
But why do I want this?
Will becoming great make me happy?
Recently Scottie Scheffler (the best golf player in the world) said something in a press conference that intrigued me.
“This [golfing] is not a fulfilling life, it’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of like, you know, the deepest places of your heart. ”
I think he’s right. There are so many people, who are great, who are the best at what they do, who are by all accounts, the masters of their respective universes. Yet they remain unhappy and unfulfilled. True fulfillment won’t come from being the best at what you do, but through following God.
I know that.
But I want to be great.
“No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Luke 16:13 KJV
I cannot serve both God and content creation as equal masters. Content creation must be subservient to the Lord. A tool, a method to glorify His greatness.
I will be great, but it won’t be my greatness, it will be the Lord’s.