Greatness in God’s economy …

If you’ve ever seen the movie, “I, Robot,” you might just experience flashbacks when learning how an amusement park in Tokyo, Japan has unveiled plans to open a “robot kingdom” with more than 200 automatons working on the premises.

Oh Niinuma, a staff writer for Nikkei Asian Review, reports the the idea of a “robot kingdom” is …

[All] part of a long-term strategy to revolutionize Japan’s anemic service sector.

… The androids will include a chef that can cook okonomiyaki (a Japanese pancake), a bartender that can mix no fewer than 10 cocktails, and a wait staff ready to serve and clean up after visitors.

… The kingdom will expand on a “smart hotel” that opened last summer at the Nagasaki Prefecture theme park. Automatons check in customers, provide information and carry luggage. The facility started with about 30 flesh-and-blood staffers, but robots have taken over many duties, cutting the human headcount by more than half.

After hearing this story, an unidentified writer noted the following:

Imagine it, a kingdom of robots programmed to serve the needs of people. Perhaps God’s purposes would have been better served had He established a kingdom of robots. Instead, He has called believers to serve others of their own free-will.

While man dreams of a utopia where he is served by an army of robots, God dreams of a kingdom where “The greatest among you will be your servant” (Matthew 23:11).

God wants us to choose to serve others because we think of, feel about, and value others with the mind of Christ. In God’s economy, greatness is to desire to serve others rather than wanting to be served.

Is that how you define “greatness”?

Scotty