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29 - UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

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1 Thessalonians 2:9-10a


9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.


So much of what we do for others in the name of God and for His service goes unnoticed and unacknowledged. Not easy, but that’s fine.  Such is the way of the Christian heart in action.  It comes with the territory.  Paul is writing to them from a distance, some time after he and the team had physically lived and worked among the people. It’s pretty certain, given what we know about Paul’s heart and style, that he was not trying to rub their noses in the memory of his blood, sweat and tears for them, but rather to underscore the depth of his love and care for them.  


Talk about walking the talk!!


Our people - the people we lead and manage - will have so much more respect for us, and for the work we are doing together and the tasks we expect of them, if we display, and live out, a willingness to get our hands bloody and dirty (so to speak) in the daily grind of work – alongside them


When we accepted Christ into our hearts, we laid down our rights to control our lives, yielded to the Supreme Ruler and hung a sign around our heart-necks that read, “Under New Management” … and He kept His promise, that if we would delight ourselves in Him, put Him and His will first, that He would put His spirit within us and cause us to walk in His way. He promised and committed Himself to get inside us and change us from the inside-out - for His honor and glory.  His Son showed us what all this meant - and means - He came among us and sacrificed Himself.


PRAYER ACTION

Lord, I know I have an obligation to the company to be all - and more - than what the company hired me to be.  And I know people look up to me, depend on me and even need me for them to be successful and happy – even to live.  But they don’t own me.  Only You possess my life!  I’m answerable only to You! That’s wonderful and scary. But I choose again, today, to hang the sign around my neck, to wear my lapel badge that reads, “Under New Management. Still.”

“Talkers are no good doers: be assured. We come to use our hands and not our tongues.”

(Shakespeare - Richard III)

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