“If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honoured, all the parts are glad. All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26-27 NLT
In everything, there’s always a backend that makes the front end work. For example, you can move, see, and do other activities because your brain is working. A car moves because the engine works.
You look intimate with your spouse in public because you’re doing something right at home. At work, you’re able to submit that client proposal on time because your office manager ensured the supplies were intact.
There’s nothing like, “My job is more important than yours,” even though the best of us make such statements to people we think are “lower” than us. Your job can have a higher perceived value, but it’s not better.
Self-righteousness is a plague that the enemy has used to cause dysfunction among us. Because we have a false sense of status, we use our words to stop others from reaching their potential, and then we break the system.
Our greatest downfall is the need to be higher than our neighbours. But when you realize that you’re only the face and can’t perform optimally without that hidden voice box in your throat, you’ll realise that everyone you encounter is just as important as you are.
How can we respectfully work with one another without trying to be superior?
There are team members who will always want to act and prove superiority, either in position or intellect, but we know better.
Once you have a front-facing role that gives you access to those that matter, it is tempting to think you are capable on your own and forget how the rest of the body operates.
But think about the production line that makes your job possible. From the sales guy who sold your PC to you to your favourite food vendor, that’s always there, ensuring you have enough “fuel” to work.
Even your ability to browse the internet is possible because someone heads to work early enough to ensure the network is optimal.
There’s also the low-earning fabric maker that created the material for those work joggers you love so much. And the carpenter who made your beautiful-looking worktable.
So, you see. Everything we have is because someone else saw their role as important enough to show up.
“I realise now that I am just as important as everyone else, and I choose to show this by…”
If you work at a physical location, greet the janitor on your way in. If you work from home, give God praise for the bread you’re about to eat. You’ll feel so good afterwards.
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