The Result of Hard Work... Real Life Story

Real Life Story.....®

Ezra and Thomas joined a company together a few months after their graduation from university.

After a few years of work, their Manager promoted Ezra to a position of Senior Sales Manager, but Thomas remained in his entry level Junior Sales Officer position. Thomas developed a sense of jealousy and disgruntlement, but continued working anyway.

One day Thomas felt that he could not work with Ezra anymore. He wrote his resignation letter, but before he submitted it to the Manager, he complained that  Management  did not value hard working staff, but only promoted only the favoured!

The Manager knew that Ezra worked very hard for the years he had spent at the company; even harder than Thomas and therefore he deserved the promotion. So in order to help Thomas to realize this, the Manager gave Thomas a task.

“Go and find out if anyone is selling water melons in town?”

Thomas returned and said, "yes there is someone!"

The Manager asked, "how much per kg?" Thomas drove back to town to ask and then returned to inform the Manager; "they are R13.50 per kg!"

The Manager told Thomas, "I will give Ezra the same task that I gave you. Please pay close attention to his response!"

So the Manager said to Ezra, in the presence of Thomas; “Go and find out if anyone is selling water melons in town?”

Ezra went to find out and on his return he said:
"Manager, there is only one person selling water melons in the whole town. The cost is R49.00 each water melon and R32,50 for a half melon. He sells them at R13.50 per kg when sliced. He has in his stock 93 melons, each one weighing about 7kg. He has a farm and can supply us with melons for the next 4 months at a rate of 102 melons per day at R27.00 per melon; this includes delivery.
The melons appear fresh and red with good quality, and they taste better than the ones we sold last year.
He has his own slicing machine and is willing to slice for us free of charge.
We need to strike a deal with him before 10am tomorrow and we will be sure of beating last year's profits in melons by R223 000.00. This will contribute positively to our overall performance as it will add a minimum of 3.78% to our current overall sales target.
I have put this information down in writing and is available on spreadsheet. Please let me know if you need it as I can send it to you in fifteen minutes."

Thomas was very impressed and realized the difference between himself and Ezra. He decided not to resign but to learn from Ezra.

As we begin this fresh year, let this story help us keep in mind the importance of going an extra mile in all our endeavors.

You won't be rewarded for doing what you're meant to do, you only get a salary for that! You're only ​rewarded​ for going an extra mile; performing beyond expectations. 

To be successful in life you must be observant, proactive and willing to do more, think more, a more holistic perspective and go beyond the call of duty.

May you be blessed with a better perspective to your work this year.
*Greater life needs this.mentality of going an extra mile, As Husband's, mothers, children...I pray..let's go an extra mile in all our endeavour... Prospect we Love you* 
Have a blessed day

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Question: "Why did God harden Pharaoh’s heart?"

Question: "Why did God harden Pharaoh’s
heart?"
Answer: Exodus 7:3-4 says, “But I will harden
Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my
miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt he will
not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on
Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will
bring out my people the Israelites.” It seems
unjust for God to harden Pharaoh’s heart and
then to punish Pharaoh and Egypt for what
Pharaoh decided when his heart was hardened.
Why would God harden Pharaoh’s heart just so
He could judge Egypt more severely with
additional plagues?
First, Pharaoh was not an innocent or godly
man. He was a brutal dictator overseeing the
terrible abuse and oppression of the Israelites,
who likely numbered over 1.5 million people at
that time. The Egyptian pharaohs had enslaved
the Israelites for 400 years. A previous pharaoh
—possibly even the pharaoh in question—
ordered that male Israelite babies be killed at
birth ( Exodus 1:16 ). The pharaoh God hardened
was an evil man, and the nation he ruled agreed
with, or at least did not oppose, his evil actions.
Second, before the first few plagues, Pharaoh
hardened his own heart against letting the
Israelites go. “Pharaoh's heart became
hard” ( Exodus 7:13 , 22 ; 8:19 ). “But when
Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened
his heart” ( Exodus 8:15 ). “But this time also
Pharaoh hardened his heart” ( Exodus 8:32 ).
Pharaoh could have spared Egypt of all the
plagues if he had not hardened his own heart.
God was giving Pharaoh increasingly severe
warnings of the judgment that was to come.
Pharaoh chose to bring judgment on himself and
on his nation by hardening his own heart
against God’s commands.
As a result of Pharaoh’s hard-heartedness, God
hardened Pharaoh’s heart even further, allowing
for the last few plagues ( Exodus 9:12 ; 10:20 ,
27). Pharaoh and Egypt had brought these
judgments on themselves with 400 years of
slavery and mass murder. Since the wages of
sin is death ( Romans 6:23 ), and Pharaoh and
Egypt had horribly sinned against God, it would
have been just if God had completely annihilated
Egypt. Therefore, God’s hardening Pharaoh’s
heart was not unjust, and His bringing additional
plagues against Egypt was not unjust. The
plagues, as terrible as they were, actually
demonstrate God’s mercy in not completely
destroying Egypt, which would have been a
perfectly just penalty.
Romans 9:17-18 declares, “For the Scripture
says to Pharaoh: ‘I raised you up for this very
purpose, that I might display my power in you
and that my name might be proclaimed in all
the earth.’ Therefore God has mercy on whom
He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom
He wants to harden.” From a human
perspective, it seems wrong for God to harden a
person and then punish the person He has
hardened. Biblically speaking, however, we have
all sinned against God ( Romans 3:23 ), and the
just penalty for that sin is death ( Romans 6:23 ).
Therefore, God’s hardening and punishing a
person is not unjust; it is actually merciful in
comparison to what the person deserves.