Greatest Internship Ever

Internships may well be one of the best creations in the world of work. I benefited from two internships that introduced me to what would become a 46 year career in international economic development. Exciting, well-timed, well-managed, well-resourced, and well-assessed internships can trigger a world of difference, not only in a person’s life, but also in the life of an organization, its partners and its beneficiaries! Go internships!

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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