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30 - UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

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1 Thessalonians 2:9-10b


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. 


As managers we may have earned the right, and indeed it could very likely be expected of us, to NOT be engaged in many day-to-day tasks. And delegation is often not only good for us, but also good for others.  Our door cannot always be literally open, but our hearts and minds can be.  We cannot always be available and we cannot and will not always be right and perfect in all we do; and we cannot be the personal answer to all our people’s problems.  


But there is just something about managing and leading by example with a heart, words, and actions that are ethical, sincere, humble yet strong; and consistently true to the values, mission and vision of a man or woman of God who is committed to honoring Him ‘among’ the people who ‘get the job done’.  We will never be completely blameless – some things we say and do will always be tainted with selfishness, or pride, or other character or behavior defects.  


But our servant heart, and humble acknowledgement of faults, coupled with a willingness to learn, grow and improve while working alongside our people, covers a multitude of imperfections.  The better ‘us’ will outshine the other person from the ‘dark side’.  Recommended: Read today’s quote below with special focus.


PRAYER ACTION

Lord, I will sing of your love and justice; to you, Lord, I will sing praise. I will be careful to lead a blameless life - when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.  I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it. (Psalm 101)


“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt - 1910)


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