personal greatness

If someone were to ask you the question, “Who was the greatest person who ever lived?” what would be your answer? Moses?  King David? The Apostle Paul?  Abraham Lincoln? What about. . . .John the Baptist? Jesus said, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.” (Matthew 11:11) But why? Why was John the Baptist considered the greatest person who ever lived? He wasn’t the son of a king.  He was the son of a common, elderly couple.He was despised by many and eventually decapitated.He lived in isolation.He fearlessly rebuked the people for sin.He lived a separate way of life.He didn’t even become a priest (like his father). But when his miraculous birth was announced, Gabriel told Zacharias he would be “great in the eyes of the Lord.”...