Day #12: Greater Than Our Own

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right to warn me against losing mine.... Yet there are other men who can reason too.... You are not in a position to know everything that people say or do, or what they feel.
~Antigone by Sophocles

But I have a mind as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
~Job 12:3

Sometimes when we get caught up in our own thoughts and accomplishments, we forget about others around us. We get a little, may I say it, cocky. ([kok-ee]: arrogant; pertly self-assertive; conceited). We forget others have great ideas and achievements, too, and sometimes others' feats are even greater than our own.

I'm not trying to put anyone down or say that all you've done isn't great. I just think people, myself included, forget to encourage other people's ability, as well. I've realized that if I not only share my ideas with others, but also have others share their ideas with me, our combined ideas can achieve so much more than just one idea alone. They do say two heads are better than one.

Since we are all part of the body of Christ, one of our jobs is to lift up other members. If we're all holding and lifting each other up it'll be exceedingly harder to tear us down. So today, I challenge you to see and acknowledge someone else's greatness. It makes the acknowledger feel just as great as the acknowledge-ee.

P.S. I think you've done some pretty awesome things. I would also love it if you shared your great ideas with me sometime. =]

Photo #12: Greater than our own.