Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? This is a question I have often pondered. God undoubtedly is the greatest, He has no beginning or end, neither was he created, His wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be in treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. When God settles something in His heart it is done. No debate, no opinion polls when he commanded light to shine forth out of darkness it happen and this is how it occurred. God said, “Let there be light: and there was light.” He is also a jealous God and will not share His glory with another. God is jealous you may ask, surely that is a sin? No, it is impossible for God to sin as He is Holy (morally and spiritually perfect). He is perfect and therefore no change in Him is possible. His character requires worship and He will have it both in this life and the life to come. Every knee will bow and confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Many even now by the grace of God and through Faith confess Jesus Christ as Lord, today they bend the knee to Him but there are others that refuse to bend the knee and make riling accusations that there is no God. Professing themselves to be wise they have become fools and some even change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Why then should God tolerate any co existence with any other god worshiped by man when He is the only true and living God? He will not tolerate it either in this life or the life to come.
So who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven his disciples asked? I love how the Lord Jesus responses. I can imagine the thoughts as they flashed through the disciple’s minds. Maybe some would have considered Noah, how he found grace in the eyes of the Lord and was saved from Gods judgement through water (the great flood), or Daniel as God delivered him from the mouths of hungry lions. Maybe Job was considered when losing all his siblings, his live stock and servants (save one) and then his body was infected with painful boils and his wife turn on him trying to get him to deny God, yet he did not falter, not once. This in turn silenced Satan and glorified God. Many others could be mentioned; yet the Lord in his calm and gentle demeanour calls a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, “Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Let us remember to remain humble as little children, for God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble. May we find grace to live in humility!
Signing off
Tyrone
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