kudos (I see you)

a little encouragement for you today:

you love God deeply
you know God's love for you
you love people intentionally because of the love you have received

and I see you

you may think nobody knows and nobody cares - but you're wrong

you may never fully realize the implications of your service...and that's ok

God has chosen to work through you and He will reward you for your faithful obedience

is that enough for you?

don't give up
don't grow tired of doing good
delve further into faith - to the point where you NEED God

that person/ thing/ endeavour that you are feeling pulled towards - run to it

if this is where you're at - take courage, you are not alone

I know you do not serve for the kudos - but I'm giving them anyways

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you are no longer a zombie and middle-management does not satisfy

middle-management for life

middle management is the worst (if that's you - I'm sorry)

you've climbed the corporate ladder, you've put in your time
you probably have a decent desk and possibly an office

someone's always telling you what to do, though you rarely have the authority to actually do it

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but there's something comfortable about the middle, isn't there?

- it's rather noncommittal
- you don't have to make big decisions
- you get to boss around other people, further down the ladder
- there's a sense of entitlement
- and so on

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it seems that in our attempt to find this 'american dream,' we've actually bought into middle-management Christianity Life:
- noncommittal, making few decisions, bossy, entitled and so on

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but this is not what we are called to and definitely not what we should aspire to be

we are called to be janitors (with all due respect)
- cleaning toilets
- gathering garbage
- scrubbing floors
- humbling ourselves

Jesus is a servant, yet God

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what is too beneath you?
- cuz there's some toilets needing some serious scrubbing in Jesus' name

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may we take off our middle-management ties (pride), put on our work gloves (humility) and serve...because the secret is we're actually kings and queens in God's kingdom.

and get this...those we serve - they bear God's own image, deserving our utmost respect

everything is rubbish...

I rarely delve into popular blog trending for my personal writing

however, today - I put that norm aside

Steve Jobs died

I mourn his death, not because of my iPhone or iPad or MacBook or the sleek way they all integrate and have changed the way we live

I mourn because one person has died
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but I got to thinking:

how many others die without so much as a whisper?

who grieves? who mourns for them?

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and then I got to thinking

as I read posts and blogs and random thoughts from random people:

what will be my mark on this existence? (I know you're all thinking it too)

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and then I really got thinking:

all my ambition, all my drive - rubbish if I lose grip of one key truth

"the last will be first and the first will be last"

I pray that I will be found faithful as a servant

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what will your mark be?

will this world be better or worse after you're done here?