The Alpha of Greatness

UV 3043/10000 The Alpha of Greatness
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Deuteronomy 32 v 3
We are to publish the greatness of the name of the Lord Jesus and of the Father Jehovah and of the Holy Spirit. He is our indwelling source of greatness. His power is great inspiring awe and fear in us. His love is great causing us to also love Him in increasing measure as we comprehend the nature and extent of His love. His mercy is great and He is able to forgive and forget all of our sin though it be numerous and terrible and stains our souls like crimson and scarlet. His justice is great such that He does nothing that is unjust. His righteousness or holiness is great inspiring fear and reverence in mortals like us. His wisdom is great such that no one can fully fathom it except as He reveals it to us.

As for us, the best of us are sinful and miserable. Yet there is a hidden desire for personal greatness. The pursuit of greatness in this world is in vain for all greatness fades with time. We can find the secrets to lasting personal greatness only in the Lord. The Psalmist David wrote that He increases us in greatness and comforts us on all sides. Instead of misery, He replaces it with joy that nothing in this world can take away. The greatness of God is always ready and waiting to express itself in and through our lives, to manifest itself. The uni-verse above asks us to ascribe greatness to our God. It implies that we need to acknowledge, attribute, honour , appropriate the greatness of the Lord in terms of His mercy, grace, peace, power, wisdom.

Our lives are to be essays to express the greatness of the Lord. When we share the numerous ways in which we have experienced the greatness of the character of the Lord, His faithfulness, His gentleness and humility, His compassion, His love, His grace and power, we are publishing His greatness. When we use our talents, skills, abilities, resources to give expression of the greatness of God at work in us, we are publishing His greatness.