Greatness

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may the Holy Spirit please be guiding and protecting us all through the day. Please help us overcome our prideful desires to standout as great among others. Please show us how to find greatness by serving others and taking the humble seats and not seeking honor but giving it. In Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. 

Quotation:*
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. -Socrates 
Some must be great.  Great offices will have great talents.  And God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste that lifts him into life and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fall. -Cowper

KJV*
Ex 23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Ps 115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 

Pr 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. 

Ac 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: