Who knows you?
Jacob Kinyanjui, Ph.D, PMP, PSM
Corporate Trainer / Project Management / Strategic Management Consultant
You’re as poor as the friends you keep. If everybody around you is poor, you may end up poor your entire lifetime. Jesus used a seemingly controversial parable to teach why we should intentionally surround ourselves with some wealthy friends who can jumpstart us if we become bankrupt.
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings - Luke 16:9 (NIV)
Joseph asked his fellow prisoner to introduce him to Pharaoh. When magicians failed to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams, the chief cupbearer told the king that he knows a gifted Hebrew boy who can interpret any dream. Through one contact, his gift and divine favor, Joseph became the Prime Minister of world’s then superpower. Who knows you? Who does your friend know?
How come you’re not known by people who can elevate you? Simply because you don’t help others. You live for yourself and wonder why you’re damn poor. Jesus taught, “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it – Matthew 16:25 (NIV).”
Nelson Mandela “lost” his life to save South Africa from Apartheid. Martin Luther King Jr. literally lost his life fighting for equal rights for all. Mahatma Gandhi nearly died in hunger strike fighting colonialism. I challenge you to “lose” your life towards a course greater than you. Stand up for orphans, aliens, those in prison unfairly, or victims of rape, domestic violence, post-election violence etc.
Whenever you stand up for the oppressed, you build your social equity. As you help the weak, you get stronger. And by the way, whenever you serve humanity, you’re serving God. Standing up for the marginalized and serving the needy is losing yourself to the course of Christ. In so doing, you find your life – which means, you connect with your purpose for living.
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you - James 1:27 (NLT).
DR. K. N. JACOB