Here is what
Wikipedia reports about internships:
An internship is a job training for white-collar and professional careers. These positions may be paid or unpaid and are usually temporary. Generally, an internship consists of an exchange of services for experience between the student and an organization. Students can also use an internship to determine if they have an interest in a particular career, create a network of contacts or gain school credit. Some interns find permanent, paid employment with the organizations for which they worked. This can be a significant benefit to the employer as experienced interns often need little or no training when they begin regular employment. Unlike a trainee program, employment at the completion of an internship is not guaranteed.
The greatest and
wisest Teacher ever succeeded in structuring, resourcing, managing and
assessing an internship program for a well-selected group of 12 followers, and
get this…He had a 92% success rate! Only
one (Judas) failed to complete the full, 3-year course. I challenge any internship program on Earth
to beat this record! Go
Jesus!
News flash: Not only did Jesus establish, manage and
assess a 3-year internship for His disciples; through Him, God (Love, Himself)
established the greatest internship program ever conceived! Moreover, He ensured this program would be
well structured, resourced, managed and especially, assessed. Here's my idea of a unique, relevant name and acronym for His
program:
L.I.F.E. -- Love’s
Internship ForEver
Seen through the
lenses of eternity, your life and mine are but an extended audition -- a
multi-decade internship, if you will, for us to become acquainted with God’s
organization, called The Kingdom of Heaven. Wikipedia
got it right on this point: Our lives are an exchange of
services-for-experience between the student and the organization. As students, we
use our internships to determine if we have an interest in God’s offer of an eternal career, a network of contacts, and credits. Some of us interns will
indeed find permanent, paid employment with this organizations for which we
began our work prior to departing this earthly life. This will indeed be a significant
benefit to Heaven since we experienced interns often need little or no training
when we begin regular, full-time, eternal employment upon arrival in our new
work environment. Employment upon successful
completion of our earthly internships is
guaranteed!
The
guide and manual for this internship program is the:
B.I.B.L.E. – Basic Instructions [for] Beginning Love’s Employment
Unlike Wikipedia’s
explanation, however, this internship is not job
training for white collar or
professional careers, but ‘role
training for the white-robed’ who will play a wide range of governance roles
across the world in Christ’s millennium government on this current Earth, and later, in nations strewn across His promised new Earth in a new universe! Imagine that...
At anytime during our internship experience, we may opt out – out of the eternal employment
offer or out of the program altogether. It’s our choice, and sadly, many people have opted out. You see, God
intends to avoid having any potentially disgruntled employees/servants in His
Heaven, and any potential for a repeat of the attempted coup d’état satan launched with a third of The Lord's angels, who became devils on Earth. So ponder the offer; then make your choice well. No choice is still a choice – your choice to
decline His offer. We who accept His offer, and who progress intentionally in our internship experience, will first learn
well and then begin now, in this life, to apply the organizational culture and principles of our new
work environment. I'm guessing the better we apply
ourselves now, during our internships, the less 'remedial training' we may require upon
arrival on Heaven’s shores, and the more useful we will be in our new assignments, first when we return to this Earth with The Lord for His Millennial Reign as global King; and afterward, when we return to Heaven (His promised new Earth) for our GLORIFIED eternity!
Hmmm, I wonder what my assignment or
governance role may be…
Happy Internship!
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