Humility Comes before Honour

Do not underestimate how a big lesson can be taught through a small mistake.

So today I worked at A&W. I was assigned to work early in the morning to open the save and supervise the day shift. Opening the save was supposed to be an easy task and I thought I should be able to handle this since I had done this once before, and I had copied down all the instructions. Therefore, with much confidence, I attempted to open the save.

The first time, I could not open. The second time, I could not open. The third time, fourth, fifth ... I started to get a bit frustrated. I wondered why the save wasn't behaving. I intended to keep trying until the save would open for me. But in the end, I still had to call my mom (who was also the store manager) for help because not only I could not get it open regardless how I tried, there was some troubleshoot to the debit machines.

Anyhow, mom dropped by to see what the problems were (she was supposed to have a day off today). After she fixed the debit machines, she asked me to perform how to open the save. I did what I thought it should be, and immediately she spotted one error I made - I overdid one of the steps. URGH! When the problem was finally realized, I slammed the door shut and started crying. At the moment I felt I was totally incompetent because I couldn't perform such a small task! Not only that, I have already made many errors since I started my supervisor training!

Later in the day I realized my grumpiness was silly. Well, it was hard to prevent given the rough situation, but I thought I should be humble and willing to accept making mistakes. I should not be too confident about (or to pressure myself to) doing everything 100%, especially when I am still new to this position.

Thank You, Lord, for such an invaluable lesson today.

敗壞之先，人心驕傲；尊榮以前，必有謙卑。 ﹝箴言 18:12﹞
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honour. (Proverbs 18:12)