You never know who keeps climbing because they have you to look up to.
Day: August 30, 2020
Cue 88 – The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The Work You Do, the Person You Are
“I have worked for all sorts of people since then, geniuses and morons, quick-witted and dull, bighearted and narrow. I’ve had many kinds of jobs, but since that conversation with my father I have never considered the level of labor to be the measure of myself, and I have never placed the security of a job above the value of home.” – Toni Morrison
Use or build?
Knowing how to use something is different from knowing how to build it.
We understand this when it comes to devices. For example, there are many people who know how to use a phone to do whatever it is built for, yet they have no clue how to build a phone.
It gets quite blurry when it comes to leadership. People that know how to use people to get results are usually promoted to roles where they are supposed to build people through results.
Building requires a different skillset from using.
When using people, results come first, there is no room for mistakes and the stick is a lot more visible than the carrot. It is a push game.
When building people, relationships come first, there is room for mistakes and the carrot is more visible than the stick. It is a pull game.
To find meaning in any undertaking, we need results and relationships. There are roles that require the push game and roles that require the pull game. Know the game you are in, learn and play accordingly.
– Osasu Oviawe
Acceptable
Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Homily:
Whenever I read that we are “to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God”, I remember God’s advice to Cain and what determines the acceptability of our sacrifice.
“Then the Lord said to Cain, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”” – Genesis 4:7 (NIV)
We live in an age where you have to be deliberately dumb not to know what is right.
However, most times, sin is ever crouching at our door. So how do we rule sin? By leaving the door closed to it.