Weak or Great?

I was reading of the time when the disciples got into an argument with each other. You ask, why were they arguing? Well, they thought they needed to decide who among them was the greatest. Didn't they have better things to do? They apparently thought this was something that needed to be agreed upon. So what did their conversation sound like? Did they say things like, "well you know, Peter walked on water. How can you beat that?". Or maybe they said, "I've been with Him since the beginning - - we go back a long way!" and holding up two intertwined fingers, adds, "we're tight." Someone else might have said, "listen, I left everything to follow Him -- and I had a lot to leave behind." We can imagine what it sounded like because we've all done this sort of thing.

So Jesus hears them, and hears their hearts: what they don't say, but is churning inside. He pulls a nearby child close to Him and says to them all: "do you see this child? If you accept her (in all her simplicity) in My name, you are accepting Me. And if you accept Me, it means you really are accepting My Father." Then he adds, "whoever is least among all of you, that person is great."

Someone who's like a child, or would be thought of as the least important in the crowd, is really quite valued by God! Hmmph. That goes against all we instinctively think, doesn't it? Does it mean God likes the weak person? I think so. Know why? It's the one who is weak, and knows they are weak, whom God can most use. The weak person is totally dependent on God. The person who is pretty self-satisfied about their own talents and abilities doesn't feel the need to lean on God. They can do pretty well by themselves, thank you. This is an error Jesus does not want us to make. And oh, how easy it is to make it.