Work That Makes a Difference

Here’s an excerpt from an encouraging post from Tim Challies. I encourage you to read the entire post.

Work is not significant only when it utilizes my full capacity or full capabilities. Work is not significant only when it offers unusual challenge or special opportunity. Work is not significant only when it is measurable in dollars and cents or praise and compliments. Work has intrinsic significance because it gives me the opportunity to do something with joy—with joy in the Lord. I can do my work in such a way that it glorifies God, or I can do it in such a way that it dishonors him. Anything I can do to God’s glory has significance. It has great significance!

Definitely something about which I need to be reminded more often than I’d like to admit.

The Penalty of Leadership

This work has been often misattributed, but it comes from a Cadillac print advertisement on page 47 of the January 2, 1915 Saturday Evening Post. Excellent work here by legendary ad man and philanthropist Theodore F. MacManus. A partial quote is below.

The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy — but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions — envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains — the leader.

You can see the actual ad with the full quote here.