by George H. Warnock

 
Jesus comes on the scene, and immediately we are made to realize that here is One that is Great because of His humility. Here is One who can take note of the things that are meaningless to others; for He (like the hyssop) was but a “Root of a dry ground.” Here was One who “had no form nor comeliness”… One who could not get enthralled about the mighty and the noble; or share the enthusiasm of the disciples about the splendour of the Temple; but who saw beauty in the “lily of the field”… One who would not break the “bruised reed,” or quench the “smoking flax.”

True greatness does not stand apart, above and beyond the ordinary.