Blog@GraceJunction

Recently I was in Mumbai for a ten day training for Private Banking (a division that handles only ultra High Networth Individuals). This field is very polished and the Relationship Manager’s(RM) meet only the business biggies of that city or state. These RM’s are highly regarded by the company and they themselves have a big inflated ego, “pride value” and all other values we can think of. The training was for both domestic and International RM’s coming from different countries.

These RM’s were very touchy about small small things. Somebody was complaining about the hotel not being a five star and being a three star, somebody about food, somebody about the Air-Conditioner et cetera. But I want to share one incident whick kept me thinking for a long while and prompted me to come up with this blog.

In one of our breaks some of us went to the wash room. On entering the wash room one of the RMs, based at Bahrain, got his shirt pulled off by some sharp obeject, possibily on the door. The right side of the shirt tore off, near the hand, in the size of a “pin hole”. This guy looked at the shirt for a while trying to see if it could be hidden or adjusted in some or the other way. After few minutes he said to us, “I’m going to meet the General Manager of the hotel and take him to task”!!

I just stood their thinking and wondering that what a small patch, even the size of a pin hole, can do to us. The point here is not the torn shirt. The point is why and how people react to such small things. Probably the guy wanted to point somebody’s error in having that pointed thing in the wash room. Maybe he wanted to show how important he is (to feed his ego), or maybe he could not stand with his collegues. I guess there where many things that tore off in that guy along with the shirt. With the shirt his status tore off, his pride of wearing a costly shirt tore off and so on and so forth.

In our daily life we as individuals always don’t want to miss a chance where we can show our importance to people around us. But is that how we react to every situation? Do we react the same way when somebody’s hurt on the road, somebody is needing help?

The purpose for which God created us was not to throw our weight around. He created us to use every moment and situation for his Glory. Even if its the torn shirt!!! And if we are worried about the torn shirt, then we should definitely be worried about how God will feel about our actions.

Whatever we’ve been given is a grace of God and we are only an instrumental cause to it. So rather than worrying about our torn shirts, let’s think of serving our torn souls which has been sold to the worldly standards and values.

Some people might call this “conservatism” in thinking. But let me tell you, the TRUTH doesn’t change, come what may. The Bible says “Everything in this world will pass away, but the word of the God will not pass without every single word of it coming true”

For us Christ tore himself apart. He was tortured to all the levels and given a cross to die. But when Christ rose up, it was like this needle and the thread that became available to everyone in the world to sew their lives indulged in pride, love of money and other worldly things so that it can be patched up with his love and character, something that God himself desires in our life.

Later that evening I just asked the RM whether the hotel was going to do something about his shirt!!? He said “No”. I asked him what he was going to do about it? He said “I’m going to throw off the shirt”. I suggested to him to give it off to somebody who understood its worth.

Let’s not throw off our soul just ‘coz it has a small patch, Christ is there to mend it.

Tags: Ego, humility

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