Sunday, December 17th
Jesus said, "I tell you this: never has there appeared on earth a mother's son greater than John the Baptist, and yet the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he."
Matthew 11:11

Greatness is to be recognised in terms of power to change self and society and in the measure of success achieved in such a change. Humanly speaking and in the power of the Heavenly Father, John the Baptist did all that was possible by his life, his teaching and his death. No-one in the world's history has been more faithful to the task set before him or more successful in accomplishing it in and through the power bestowed upon him.

Yet that which was introduced into the Father's world of humankind through My Incarnate life, My death and my resurrection, injected into the lives of the Father's beloved children a potential which transcends all that had gone before. Through My death and My risen life the sons of Adam are called to be
the sons of God, whole and complete in Me, powerful in and through My risen life to fulfil the Father's loving purpose for others in the light and power of Our Holy Spirit. Myriads of the Father's children have so embraced their destiny, establishing the knowledge of the Father's greatness in the world of men and their own as a reflection of the Father's.

So is the least in the Kingdom of the Incarnate Word more powerful for good than John in his time, though of no greater account or more totally loved and valued.