Greatness Determined by Use, not Extent
E. H. Chapin, D. D. Matthew 18:2-5 And Jesus called a little child to him, and set him in the middle of them,… When you take the loftiest standards in comparison, who is filling a great sphere in God's universe? What king, what president, what statesman, what man of pride and renown, is filling a great sphere? But the moment you come down and take the ordinary earthly standards, the true test of any man's condition is the uses to which he puts it — and to which the Almighty Himself puts it. The uses of a thing make it great, not its extent. The uses of the wayside spring, that refreshes the traveller's march; or the flower that grows at the foot of awful ice-peaks and battlemented crags, unfolding all the summer long its beautiful parable of Providence and love — who can limit the usefulness of that? and who can say that it is nothing, because its sphere is little? (E. H. Chapin, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, WEB: Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,