On Faith

by Thomas Heng

Faith is the gift of believing in what one cannot yet see.

In all things, have faith, for alone we truly can do nothing. All we can do is commit to beome a better steward, not merely to do more stewardship tasks.

Use discernment to decide which tasks deserve our attention and commitment to see it through, for we should invest our time wisely for the good of God's kingdom.

The purpose of having talents is to channel God's power in bless and multiply them in abundance.

Such growth is exciting but as foreign as the process of growing a seed into a mighty tree: all of us are aware of this concept, yet not all of us are blessed to view each earthly work as such.

Genuine self-confidence stems from a deference of one's self-awareness to the knowledge that the Creator knows His creations best.

On Profits

"Profits Are Better Than Wages" -- Jim Rohn

To the uninitiated, there doesn't seem to be a difference between profits and wages. After all, don't they both come in more or less the same form, Cold Hard Cash?

Perhaps this little reflection of mine can help you make some distinctions between these two concepts. I wrote this in response to Jim Rohn's quote:

Wages make me a Living; 

Profits make me a Fortune.

It is sad when I speak with some executives. You know, those regular-hour types that seem to earn ever-increasing amounts as bonuses for doing the same thing day-in, day-out. They tend hardly not to seek out opportunities around them, and are content to drift along. Evidently they are either too young to be promoted, or too old to learn something new. Well, I completely empathise, because I was one of them! Believe it or not, working for a Living was something I used to do.

Being in an environment that is at best unsupportive, and at worst, outright hostile, doesn't help the aspiring executive either. It seems that there is just too much cynicism in the workplace. Invariably this results in people being too focussed on keeping their jobs rather than simply doing them, regardless of their pronoucements that they are indeed doing the latter!

So why am I seemingly fixated with Fortune? So that I can give it away! Seriously, can you give away your Living to someone else? Being thirty-something is not too early to consider leaving beind a legacy; Life is just too short not to think of such things! I have seen, heard and experienced enough to know that drifting along is no longer an option. In fact, it never was an option in the first place! 

Thus I commit to Working Hard on My Job, But Working (Much) Harder on Myself.