HUMBLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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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