You can tell what people think of themselves by the way they dress and present themselves to others. A worldly, flip, young girl who knows little about the important things in life, sells herself short by dressing in tight, brief, supposedly sexy attire. In her skin tight jeans and thin halter, she comes out as cheap, empty headed, and ready for easy immorality. She places a low value on her inner worth. We can see that she doesn't think that a happy smile and a pleasing personality will appeal to the boys around her. She has sold herself short, and her outward advertising attracts only those who want worldliness at a cheap price.

Have you ever noticed how many people have “The Tower of Babel Complex?” Remember the tower of Babel? These people said, “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name” (Gen. 11:4). Evidently they thought, “the bigger the better” or, the way to be really somebody is to do big things in big ways. Many people are of that same disposi- tion. They are not anybody, in their estimation, unless they can “see their name up in lights,” unless they have “the most” of whatever it is. Thus, the almost insatiable desire to “get to the top”--wherever that is.

In direct opposition to this, have you ever noticed how, according to the teaching of Jesus, greatness is not necessarily in doing the “big” things, but rather in the small things; and with Him and His people, the way up is the way down. This is just one of the many ways in which the kingdom of Christ is “not of this world,” that is, its standard of greatness is not the same as the world’s standard. Let’s notice some of these.