Back
then in school, I used to wash my hostel's toilet and bathroom over the weekend,
because the cleaners don’t usually come during the weekend. Some of my
colleagues often look at me as if I lack what to do, but then I kept at it. It
all started out as joke, I gave it little or no though, but before I realized
it became fun. Little did I know that what I was doing was leaving an impression
in the heart of most of the guys that used to watch me. A year after, when I
returned from National Youth Service, I met these guys doing what I started,
and they were even doing it much more than I did. It was then that I remembered
what a brother once told me eight years ago, he told me: “accept humble responsibilities
and don’t look down on such”.
When
you hear the word humble responsibilities, what come to your mind? Does it
depict some ignored, less important tasks to you? Does doing such make you
inferior or less important? Humble services and responsibilities can be seen as
roots to a fruitful tree; though they are done behind the scene, far from the
view and the knowledge of people, but their rippling rewards will always
resonate on the stage of life for all men to see. Again, small and humbles
responsibilities are like foundations, at the unfolding of events, and as time goes on,they
will shoulder the bigger responsibility of carrying the entire building of one’s
life.
Humble
services and responsibilities initially attract momentary shame and scorn that
if you are not really humble at heart, you will feel like giving up; but soon
if you persist at it, you will come to understand that they carry the power to
attract lasting gain and fame. If you are to take a survey of great and
respectable men and women in the society who have attend great feat in their
various field of endeavours, it won’t surprise you to know that the height they
have attend now started out with small, little and humble responsibilities.
Your
attitude and response toward little and humble responsibilities today, will
largely determine the kind of responsibilities you will likely handle tomorrow.
This is simply because he who is not faithful with little cannot be faithful
with much, and if you cannot effectively accept and handle humble
responsibilities, be certain that great and big responsibilities won’t come
your way too. Little and humble responsibilities are like force of gravity that
have the power to pull and draw to themselves great and mighty
responsibilities.
If
the greatest teacher that ever traveled this earth, stooped so low to wash his
disciple’s feet, showing them the importance of humble responsibilities and
services, what excuse do we have not to follow suit? People that will change
this world are not great men doing mighty things seen by men, but they are those lowly men,
accepting and doing humble responsibilities in an extraordinary way. Get rid of
your ego, swallow your self-pride, and let go of your esteem. Get at it,
embrace the little and humble responsibilities that daily come your way, put
your whole heart into it. “One who is faithful in a very little is also
faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest
in much” Luke 16:10 (Guteng 2017©)
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