Sunday, February 06, 2005
C.E.M. Job Review: Exceeds Expectations?
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I want to do my job well. I want to excel. By what criteria will I will be evaluated?
A woman of excellence is not necessarily one whose house is always clean or whose marriage shames the sentiments of a Valentine's Day card. Her children did not all necessarily sleep through the night by three months, all potty trained at an early 2 or who have never eaten sugar. A woman of excellence is not necessarily one who dresses fashionably, is trim and thin, or whose children have never been babysat by the TV.
A woman of excellence is one who is characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
We will never be able to control our circumstances and families so well as to sport a "perfect life". That isn't the plan and you will die inside trying (Believe me, I try it sporadically.) God has not purposed for us perfect children, perfect homes or perfect marriages! Did you know that when you strive for that, you are striving against God?! He has purposed for us certain children, homes, husbands and events in order to form us into the image of His son; to burn away the garbage of our self-centered hearts and to form in us a pure, beautiful, loving heart.
1 Corinthians 13:3-7,13 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. . . . 13 And now abide these three, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love."
A woman of excellence is not necessarily one whose house is always clean or whose marriage shames the sentiments of a Valentine's Day card. Her children did not all necessarily sleep through the night by three months, all potty trained at an early 2 or who have never eaten sugar. A woman of excellence is not necessarily one who dresses fashionably, is trim and thin, or whose children have never been babysat by the TV.
A woman of excellence is one who is characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
We will never be able to control our circumstances and families so well as to sport a "perfect life". That isn't the plan and you will die inside trying (Believe me, I try it sporadically.) God has not purposed for us perfect children, perfect homes or perfect marriages! Did you know that when you strive for that, you are striving against God?! He has purposed for us certain children, homes, husbands and events in order to form us into the image of His son; to burn away the garbage of our self-centered hearts and to form in us a pure, beautiful, loving heart.
1 Corinthians 13:3-7,13 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. . . . 13 And now abide these three, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love."
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