Help Others Get Ahead

Devotional

From Philippians 2:

If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave."


We have a unique challenge in trying to be like Jesus in a competitive marketplace.  Such competition works well in our sinful world as we each jockey for position and money and advantage over each other.  But Jesus gave us a whole new set of priorities, and He doesn't give us a free pass to act differently in business.  We serve a Lord whose greatest accomplishment was letting everyone take advantage of him, whose finest moment was when the fewest people appreciated him, and who completely ignored the earthly wisdom that "you can't take care of others until you've taken care of yourself first."

Maybe it's a test of faith to do things God's way and trust that he'll take care of us.  Maybe that's what James was getting at when he said, "Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up."

Meditate on the scripture from Philippians this week and let's look out for each other and our clients and stop trying to "get what we deserve."  The whole point of the good news of Jesus is that we don't get what we deserve!  Praise God!

Scorecard Update

We've been very consistent.  Another month at 56% of goal.  Let's hit the $100,000 mark in April and get that 5% team bonus!

Here are the scorecard results:

March                 (56% of Team Goal)
EJ                         15 (out of 15)
Heath                    15
Dana                     13
Jared                      8
Jerry/Chase           4.5
David                     3
Mike                      2
Lyndal                   1.5
Steve                      .5
James                     0

Q1 Scores
1.  EJ                   10.83  (out of 15)
2.  Heath              10.67
3.  Dana                6.5
4.  David               6.33
5.  Jared                5.83
6.  Lyndal              4.5
7.  Jerry/Chase      2.83
8.  Steve                2.17
9.  Mike                 .83
10. James               .5

We're just about on track to hit the team goal in April.  Let's set a record!