Exaltation is a possibility. Everything grows from a small size. The destiny of anything good is to increase and multiply. But we must know the things that make for exaltation and lifting. They are more than mere activities and hardworking.
The basic lifting factor is righteousness. King Solomon said, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Every human endeavor must engage the force of righteousness to rise. The force of doing what's right and doing them rightly. Righteousness isn't merely a religious word. On the spiritual plane, the grace of being declared righteous is a gift. An empowerment and not just a certificate of indulgence.
One who has been declared righteous but who continues to do things without the spirit of excellence and perfection can't turn around to claim the benefits of doing things well.
Every opportunity to make things happen places a demand on the gift of righteousness we have received to perform excellently and exceptionally. Whereas, we give certificates to people after they might have be proven qualified, God gives the gift of righteousness as a down payments for His children doing excellently going forward.
No one will care about the gift of righteousness you have received, if you perform poorly on your job: claiming you have been made the righteousness of God won't make clients pay you for not doing your job well.
But to everyone who does things well, who keep working on themselves to find out best practices and to commit to setting them as the only standards, there's lifting coming.
Many Christian businessmen often would separate spiritual life from business life, thinking righteousness won't let them do well in business. They often believe that you can't but lie and be deceptive to get along in the business world.
They had forgotten that trust is what made the business world. You can't go too far disappointing your business partners and clients. How long can a substandard product, though well packaged and advertised continue to rule the market? Even the people who deceive don't like being deceived, they detest it more than others who don't and can hardly endure the same things they do to others.
Part of doing things right is humility. Even proud people know that they have to stoop to conquer at the market place and they show a degree of humility in the presence of their benefactors even if not to their beneficiaries.
Humility is the king of courtesies. It is the foundation of customer service etiquette. Righteousness without humility isn't true righteousness. Righteousness and pride can't go far together. Just as pride and lifting don't go together. Pride can only go before a fall.
Yet, humility isn't same with being shy with the truth and with what's right. Humility isn't mere men pleasing. It isn't just a look good cosmetics, applied to get along and ahead at the work place. It is being able to sincerely show due respect to any person irrespective of age, color, sex, or social state while maintaining integrity, assertiveness and a good self esteem.
Another thing that exalts is integrity. Integrity gives solidity that can be relied upon. When a piece of engineering work loses integrity, it decays and decomposes and can't be trusted to carry weight. So is integrity at the work place. It also speaks of consistency without patches of adulteration that has no tendencies of failing a test of promise. When there's a possibility of integrity failure, the chances of lifting become slimmer.
As Christians we have the gift of righteousness that empowers us to reflect these traits from the nature within us. We have the better chance of presenting these character traits and no system will ordinarily deny a Christian a lifting who's good on his job and trust worthy in all he does with humility and love. Definitely, persecutions may make people deny such a Christian such lifting but we know that as we serve and do business as unto the Lord, God Himself opens doors of lifting and raises our heads up.
Do you think you can do with some lifting and exaltation? Look closely into these, do them and wait, it'll surely come.
Good morning and happy new week! It's a great day!
One needs the grace of God to have and maintain these qualities in order to forge ahead in life
ReplyDeleteTrue my brother. His Grace is sufficient
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