Consider Myself "Nothing"
It's been a rough week. I've been feeling frustrated with the people around me. As a highly-organized, detail-oriented, perfectionist, sometimes I hold other people to the same unfair expectations I hold myself to. But other times, people would rather underfunction and let me overfunction to get the job done. I know the obvious solution here is to "set boundaries" but determining the line between a job well done and overfunctioning/enabling others is not always that easy. I've been feeling unappreciated for all the hard work I put into making sure things run as they should lately. I've noticed this frustration building even to the point of feeling so much anger that I can feel it in my whole body.
Today, on Good Friday, Philippians 2:5-11 came to mind. Though Jesus was God, he humbled himself, counted himself as nothing, even to the point of death on the cross. Verse 5 tells us to have the same mindset in our relationships with others. I don't think that means we should allow others to walk all over us. But I think it's a reminder that ultimately, the work we do isn't to gain earthly accolades. The work we do, professionally or personally, should be for the glory of God and the benefit of his people. The story didn't end with Jesus dying on the cross. He rose again and was exalted with God in Heaven! His prize for a job well done was in eternity. The same is true for me.
So today, I am still working setting boundaries and feeling my feelings. But I am also remembering that the work I do isn't for those people that frustrate me. It's for the people I'm serving and it's ultimately an opportunity to show God's love to others just as Jesus did when he gave his life on the cross.
Philippians 2:5-11 NIV "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Today, on Good Friday, Philippians 2:5-11 came to mind. Though Jesus was God, he humbled himself, counted himself as nothing, even to the point of death on the cross. Verse 5 tells us to have the same mindset in our relationships with others. I don't think that means we should allow others to walk all over us. But I think it's a reminder that ultimately, the work we do isn't to gain earthly accolades. The work we do, professionally or personally, should be for the glory of God and the benefit of his people. The story didn't end with Jesus dying on the cross. He rose again and was exalted with God in Heaven! His prize for a job well done was in eternity. The same is true for me.
So today, I am still working setting boundaries and feeling my feelings. But I am also remembering that the work I do isn't for those people that frustrate me. It's for the people I'm serving and it's ultimately an opportunity to show God's love to others just as Jesus did when he gave his life on the cross.
Philippians 2:5-11 NIV "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
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