최상위직으로 승진: Rising To The Top by Julie Ackerman Link

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

by Julie Ackerman Link   Date: 2011-09-14 Read:1 Samuel 15:17-30 Rising To The Top Let nothing be done through selfish  ambition or conceit. -Philippians 2:3 Hymn374 “Lacks ambition.” That is not a phrase you want  to see on your performance review. When it  comes to work, employees who lack ambition  seldom rise to the top of an organization.  Without a strong desire to achieve something,  nothing is accomplished. Ambition, however,  has a dark side. It often has more to do with  elevating self than with accomplishing something  noble for others.    This was the case with many of the kings of  Israel, including the first one. Saul started out  with humility, but he gradually came to consider  his position as something that belonged to him.  He forgot that he had a special assignment from  God to lead His chosen people in a way that  would show other nations the way to God.  When God relieved him of duty, Saul’s only  concern was for himself (1 Sam. 15:30).    In a world where ambition often compels people to do whatever it takes to rise to positions of  power over others, God calls His people to a  new way of living. We are to do nothing out of  selfish ambition (Phil. 2:3) and to lay aside the  weight of sin that ensnares us (Heb. 12:1).  If you want to be someone who truly “rises up,” make it your ambition to humbly love and serve  God with all your heart, soul, mind, and  strength (Mark 12:30).    Rise up, O men of God!  Have done with lesser things:  Give heart and mind and soul and strength  To serve the King of kings. —Merrill Ambition is short-sighted if our focus  is not on God.

by Julie Ackerman Link   날짜: 2011-09-14 사무엘상 15:17-30 최상위직으로 승진 아무 일에든지 다툼이나허영으로  하지 말고－빌립보서 2:3 찬송가374 “야망이 부족함”. 자기의 인사 고과표에서 이런 구절을 보고 싶어 하는 사람은 아무도 없습니다. 직장에서 야망이 없는 직원이 조직의 최상위직으로 승진 되는 경우는 거의 없습니다. 성취하려는 강한 욕구가 없다면, 아무것도 이룰 수 없습니다. 하지만 야망에는 부정적인 면도 있습니다. 야망은 다른 사람들을 위해 숭고한 어떤 일을 이루기보다, 종종 자기 자신을 높이는 일에 더 주력하도록 만듭니다.  이런 경우는 이스라엘의 첫 번째 왕을 포함하여 많은 왕들에게 있었습니다. 처음에 사울 왕은 겸손함으로 출발하였으나, 점차 왕의 자리를 자신의 소유물로 여기게 되었습니다. 그는 이방 민족들이 하나님께로 향하는 길을 볼 수 있도록, 하나님이 선택하신 백성을 이끌어야 하는 특별한 책임을 하나님으로부터 받았다는 것을 잊어 버렸습니다. 하나님께서 그의 직책을 면하셨을 때, 사울은 오직 자기 자신의 입장에만 관심을 가졌습니다(삼상 15:30).  무슨 수를 써서라도 다른 사람을 딛고, 힘 있는 자리로 올라서도록 야망이 사람들을 충동질하는 세상에서, 하나님께서는 새로운 방식으로 살아가라고 그분의 백성들을 부르십니다. 우리는 이기적인 욕망에 기인한 어떤 일도 하지 않고(빌 2:3), 모든 무거운 것과 얽매이기 쉬운 죄를 벗어 버려야 합니다(히 12:1).  만일 당신이 진정 “위로 올라가고” 싶다면, 마음을 다하고, 목숨을 다하고, 뜻을 다하고, 힘을 다하여 하나님을 겸손하게 사랑하고 섬기겠다는(막 12:30) 야망을 가지십시오.  너 주의 사람아  헛된 일 버리고  마음과 뜻과 힘을 다해  왕의 왕 섬겨라 우리의 초점이 하나님이 아니라면  욕망은 근시안적인 것이다.

 1 Samuel 15:17-30

¹⁷ So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel? ¹⁸ Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ ¹⁹ Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?” 
²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹ But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.” 
²² So Samuel said: 

      “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, 
      As in obeying the voice of the LORD? 
      Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, 
      And to heed than the fat of rams.

 ²³ For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
      And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. 
      Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, 
      He also has rejected you from being king.” 
²⁴ Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. ²⁵ Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD.” 
²⁶ But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.” 
²⁷ And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. ²⁸So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. ²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.” 
³⁰ Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.”