Why are you in business? Is it because you don’t like being told what to do? Did you want to always be your own boss? Did you discover one day you had a gift or talent that could make you money so you opened up your own business? Did you think you would get rich or make a lot of money? Perhaps you lost your job after 10, 15, or even 20 years and decided your fate would never be in the hands of another? Whatever pushed you into your purpose of entrepreneurship, did you know that the one of the greatest gifts that we could give to another is to serve them?
Remember in John 13:3-15, when Jesus washed the feet of His disciples in an act of servant hood to show them how very much He loved them. After Jesus completed washing all of His disciples’ feet, He told them they needed to follow His example as their Lord and Teacher and wash one another’s feet (John 13:14). I believe what Jesus was saying was unless we are willing to serve one another, we have no true part in Him or in each other. If we love someone to the highest degree, we will be willing to serve that person. Isn’t that what our clients and customers are? We exist to serve them. In our relationship with Him, Jesus calls us to sacrifice our self-will. We are not to be served, but to serve. We are to be sensitive to other people’s needs, even in little thiings. We, like Jesus, should seek to serve others rather than merely letting them serve us. When we have people in our lives who serve us in various ways, we should always treat then with the utmost respect and be good to them.
Put the word to work, and ask not what can I get today, but what can I give.
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I think one of the steps to running a successful business is to run it for the right reasons, and always to be a good Christian example. Thanks for the great post.