Ash Wednesday 2019
I recently changed my LinkedIn job status. In October I was invited to join my great friend Michael Ross as his company was acquired by HBK CPA and Consultants. When my new profile was posted there were many in my family (a few with accounting credentials) shaking their heads. Surely, some of them must have said, “Jimmy at a CPA firm? He can’t even add!” (True story!!). Lucky for the clients of HBK I am helping to build a different division!
As I was grabbing a cup of coffee yesterday, I noticed a sign in the break area. The CPA humor caught my eye. “Know your worth. Add Tax.” Frankly that is what Ash Wednesday and Lent is all about. Please Know your worth. The life, message, mission, passion, and death of Christ s the ‘Value Added” tax to our lives. Look at Him, look to Him, Listen to Him, Sit with Him, Follow Him, Die with Him …and you will know HIS WORTH and YOUR OWN.
Humility is the first step on this Lenten journey. Do we have the humility to abandon our ways and our choices to follow His?
St. Paul told the Philippians who He was and how to follow. Ponder this today and get LinkedIn!
Philippians 2:5-11
Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
8he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name*
that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
