Editorial February 18, 1985 Issue

True greatness

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

When one begins to consider such a subject as true greatness, it's interesting to see all the qualities that can be associated with it. Integrity, moral courage, perseverance, goodness, selflessness, are some of the concepts that we often relate to those distinguished human beings whom we think of as great.

There are hundreds of famous people in the world, people whose names are household words, but true greatness has a spiritual quality behind it, an essence of divine goodness that comes from God Himself. In fact, when God prompts our thoughts and actions, the inherent dignity and worth we derive from Him illumine the environment in which we live with an inspiring nobility.

Many individuals have an innate longing to express this nobility in their own lives. Perhaps the desire to be of true worth hints of the Christ-idea in human consciousness, revealing the truth that tells us we are so much more than the limited and frail mortals we seem to be. Our true identity is spiritual man, the man of God's creating. God's man is sublime, grand beyond any human description, because God reflects in man the very majesty and glory of divine Being. This spiritual reality of man is the grandeur that will satisfy us and enable us to be of worth to mankind. Christ Jesus fully exemplified this true greatness.

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