Happy Memorial Day weekend celebration all.
Trust you're all enjoying the holiday, sharing the memorable moments with friends and family.
Happy weekend. And remember to safely, carefully and prayerfully enjoy your Memorial Day holiday.
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Today, I am continuing the excerpts from my book - YOU CAN Make A Determined Difference and talking about the obvious fact that Christians play "left-behind" when it comes to assuming positions of influence and responsibility.
What's more, there is an ironical commendation in the Bible for the children of this world who are supposedly more "clever" than spiritually-minded people of God - Luke 16:8.
Brian Tracy, one of America
“The glue that holds all relationships
together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is - TRUST and trust is based on INTEGRITY.
I couldn’t agree more.
Trust and integrity are indisputably inevitable, sustaining bonds in every
facet of our society: at school, at work and in our community. They are
necessary in business just as they are in politics and sports. They hold things
together for here, now and certainly lead us to an enduring future.
Whereas Christians form majority of the
workers competing for jobs in the United States - at 76% of total adult
population - according to the American Religious
Identification Survey, 2008; http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf] and
whereas they are as educationally qualified as any of their peers, it is an
irony that fewer of those that profess and practice their Christian faith
seldom get to be engaged, recognized and/or adequately rewarded, not to talk of
being considered for positions of responsibility and trust - because they lack
the key principles of making the DETERMINED difference among their equals that
their employers most often seek.
My main aim is to
advocate the importance of Christian character as needed virtues at the market-place,
in circle of friends and associates as well as in our very own communities:
where all of the things we are taught at school, at Church, at seminars and
conferences about making the difference are put to the social test.
I am writing principally to draw awareness of Christians aspiring to positions of influence and non-Christians alike, to the key spiritual insights laid out as principles of wisdom and those virtues that enable
enduring fulfillment of life’s goals.
Two Scriptures every reader/worker must
seriously ponder over and take note of in reading this Book are found in Jesus’
Parable of the Shrewd Manager found in Luke 16:10-12 and some of King Solomon’s
principles on how to succeed in life - Proverbs 24:3-4:
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted
with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest
with much. So if you have not
been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true
riches? And if you have not
been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of
your own?...” Luke 16:10-12 [NIV]
and…
“By wisdom a house is built, and through
understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with
rare and beautiful treasures.” Proverbs 24:3-4 [NIV]
I believe that each of us can make an
enduring, “determined” difference when we have learned the simple truths of
these key principles that enabled others succeed.
I believe that we can leave
behind the pains of debilitating defeat and progress to harnessing the gains of
the efforts towards making the determined difference. Yes, WE CAN. We should.
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