What is your greatest accomplishment? Some interviewers love to ask this question. They want to hear from you what you believe is your greatest achievement as it relates to the position you are applying for. For a software engineer, that might be how fast they completed a software upgrade. Or the amount of money they saved their company while preventing cyber-attacks.
As a child of God what is your greatest achievement? If you’re like me, I don’t have any trophy’s setting on my desk for being some super-duper Christian. I haven’t written any books. And those sitting close by me on Sunday morning, can testify it’s not my angelic voice. So, what does God see as our greatest achievements? I hope it’s my love for Him. I hope it’s how much He knows I can’t live without him. And how sorry I am when I mess up.
Could it be that our greatest achievement is that we refuse to give up? That we aren’t who we once were. After all, all of us were once like the prodigal son. We were lost but we are found, we were blind, but now we can see. Maybe our greatest achievements don’t seem like much, but maybe they are everything to God.
Because we have changed, we care more for others than we care for ourselves. We are willing to sacrifice in order that others can have what they need. We meet on Sundays to encourage others to stay in the race. We make phone calls, send cards, and make visits. Why? Because we have changed. No, it won’t ever be printed in the local paper, but it means a lot to our Heavenly Father who calls us to be imitators of Him.
When Elijah was on the run from Queen Jezebel, God reminded him in 1 Kings 19:18 that “there were 7,000 who had not bowed their knee down to Baal”. We don’t know these 7,000 by name, but they made a difference in the life of a struggling saint just by remaining faithful. In Judges 7:7, God told Gideon he would defeat the Midianites with just 300 of his soldiers. These 300 men made a difference. God said to Abraham in Genesis 18:32, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it”. In Matthew 18:19-20, Jesus said, “I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.” In Luke 10:1 we read that Jesus “sent them two by two”.
I pray today that you will know that you are needed. Not because you are famous or not famous, but because you are part of the family of God. You are the hands and feet of God. Your greatest achievements may seem small to some, but to God, you are one of the ones, whom Jesus said, “For as much as you have done it unto one of these, you have done it unto me.” Can I encourage you to remain strong and to continue to serve. And this is Jesse Walker with the Glenwood Church of Christ.
