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Personal Integrity: Use power carefully
Don’t you hate getting jerked around by small-minded people who seem to enjoy making you jump through hoops? Don’t you hate getting “put in your place” when people in power make you feel like an outsider?
It might surprise you to realize that people farther down the food chain may have had the same experience as you! It is not only the superrich who can take advantage of the poor. Plenty of middle-class and even working-class people have opportunities to take advantage of those in society who are most vulnerable.
A drill sergeant can abuse a recruit. A commanding officer can abuse a whole regiment. But they’re not the only ones who have power. A corporal can abuse a private. Even in boot camp a pecking order among the recruits develops, to the point where one recruit ends up being able to abuse the others.
The lowest in society have a special protector in God. Remember that. “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God” (Proverbs 14:31).
That doesn’t mean that you have to fork over $5 to every panhandler you meet on the street. It does encourage us not to take advantage of those with lower rank or people with less financial and social and political power.
Don’t you hate getting jerked around by small-minded people who seem to enjoy making you jump through hoops? Don’t you hate getting “put in your place” when people in power make you feel like an outsider?
It might surprise you to realize that people farther down the food chain may have had the same experience as you! It is not only the superrich who can take advantage of the poor. Plenty of middle-class and even working-class people have opportunities to take advantage of those in society who are most vulnerable.
A drill sergeant can abuse a recruit. A commanding officer can abuse a whole regiment. But they’re not the only ones who have power. A corporal can abuse a private. Even in boot camp a pecking order among the recruits develops, to the point where one recruit ends up being able to abuse the others.
The lowest in society have a special protector in God. Remember that. “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God” (Proverbs 14:31).
That doesn’t mean that you have to fork over $5 to every panhandler you meet on the street. It does encourage us not to take advantage of those with lower rank or people with less financial and social and political power.
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About this Plan
The experience of serving your country overseas--and sometimes seeing firsthand man’s inhumanity to man--may teach you important lessons about life while turning your stomach at the same time. But recognize that God has an even better way for us to learn life wisdom, a way that continually draws us closer to him no matter how far from family or church we might be. Because of his great love for us, he would much rather make us wiser through words. In this way we wouldn’t be sadder but wiser; we would be wiser and happier. The Bible’s book of Proverbs is an absolute gold mine of wisdom for the daily decisions you must make. It will help you develop your personal values and tune your life’s agenda more closely to resemble God’s.
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