The Word for Today Daily Devotional - How To Keep Your Job

Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

James 1:19 NIV

Eighty percent of the time people don't lose their job because of technical incompetence, but because of relational incompetence - they don't know how to get along with other people. If you master the three instructions that James gives, the likelihood of that happening to you will go down to just about zero.

(1) Be quick to listen! By staying calm and refusing to react, you gain insight - and respect! "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control" (Proverbs 29:11 NIV).
(2) Be slow to speak! If you talk too much or too fast, here are three tips to slow you down: (a) Stop. Just stop talking. Inhale. Count up to 10. Excuse yourself and go to the bathroom. (b) Practice not interrupting. Allow the other person to continue what they're saying until they're through. (c) Ask yourself: Why am I talking so much? Is it insecurity? Anxiety? The need to control? A desire to impress? The reason most of us try to convince, impress or control others is because we have a hard time trusting God to work things out. In other words, "our talk issue is a trust issue."
(3) Be slow to anger! If you observe the first two principles, you'll tend to come out all right on number three. It'll just happen.

You can make progress on these three things - and you can start today. And if you do it consistently year after year you'll get to the end of your life and say to yourself, "I'm so grateful that I took the wisdom of God seriously."

Daily Bible Reading:

Isaiah 40:1-31, John 9:1-39

DO NOT BE WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES - Overcoming Your Pride

Proverbs 3:7 NIV
To overcome your pride you must: (1) Recognise your pride. Benjamin Franklin observed, "There is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility." In The Indispensable Man, Saxon White Kessinger writes: "Sometime when you feel that your going, would leave an un-fill-able hole, just follow these simple instructions, and see how they humble your soul. Take a bucket and fill it with water, put your hand in it up to the wrist; pull it out and the hole that's remaining, is the measure of how you'll be missed." It's humbling just how quickly the hole we think we're leaving, disappears or gets filled in by others.
(2) Express gratitude often. Paul writes, "No matter what happens, always be thankful" (1 Thessalonians 5:18 TLB). Oprah Winfrey suggests, "Keep a gratitude journal. Every night list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. It will change your life. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never have enough. If you focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant and you'll have more." Selfish people never think they get as much as they deserve. Continually expressing gratitude helps to break that kind of pride.
(3) Learn to laugh at yourself. The Chinese proverb says, "Blessed are they that laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be entertained." People who have the problem of pride rarely laugh at themselves. Engaging in humour at your own expense shows that pride isn't the problem, and that if it is, it's one you're determined to deal with!

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Nomu Siga Ni Sucu E Daidai

Bula Guys!
Ratu AEG, today is the day that you had announced previously in one of you emails last week I think. It is Mr Moce's Birthday!
I'm sure that all you TCO's members out there will join me in wishing Mack a Happy Birthday and tons of happy returns.
Come on Turaga, you have a Great Day today and may the Good Lord Richly Bless You and Your Family on your Birthday.
Heaps of love and best wishes from all your friends at TCO's.
Celebrations later .... your veranda or my porch ..... up to you!
Sa donu guys, have a great day and stay blessed.
Prez