Is Promotion Good or Bad??

sometimes its very hard to see some people behaving to others just because someone got a promotion… jealousy can take weird forms in different stages of life… a recent example i saw is when one of my colleagues got promoted… she is quite hard working… i have never seen her coming late to work… she is good to others… and my manager recently sent out a mail saying that she got promoted to senior engineer… the next thing i see is a group of my colleagues standing together and showing their disappointment at the decision… in the group, there were those people who were expecting a promotion… but what made me confused was, in that group, there were those people who is very friendly to my colleague who got promoted… they have breakfast, lunch and tea together everyday… always they are together sharing jokes and making fun of other people… but after the email came, none of them talk to the person who got promoted… no smiles too…

now, my colleague didn’t go to our manager and ask for promotion… she is not a high profile person… she doesn’t go around bad mouthing people like some others who were expecting promotions… but from the way my other colleagues behave to her, i get a feeling that she had committed a terrible sin by being promoted… when i congratulated her after few ours of seeing the email by manager, she told me that i was the first person to wish her and its good to see a smiling face, when many so called good friends stopped smiling… i hope and pray that i won’t be like my other colleagues at any stage of my life… i pray that i will be able to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep… coz that’s what Christ wants from me…

as far as other things are concerned, life is going on… started reading a book yesterday… ‘running with the horses’ by Eugene Peterson… from the initial few pages, i get a feeling that it’s a good book… its based on the book of Jeremiah… he is one of the prophets i like the most… that’s what made me buy the book…

work is going on smoothly… so is life… nothing to complain as He is in control… u guys take care and keep smiling…