Order Acknowledgements

 

Good morning! In case no one has told you lately – you are amazing!  You have the opportunity to be kind and loving today.  You have the potential to be a wonderful Christian example and delight to all those around you. 

Remember that as you go about your today.  I wanted to remind you how much you matter.  All of us matter.  God says all of us are important! 

Order Acknowledgements

Many of you know I work in customer service.  When our customers send in orders, they like to know we have received them.  A company wouldn’t be ordering a product unless they needed it.  It is important that their order is processed. 

Customers will also ask for a copy of an acknowledgement or confirmation.  Now most of know what that is.  When we place an order online – usually one is emailed to us.  The forms show the items ordered by the customer.  The quantity and cost of each item.

The acknowledgement shows the company name of the buyer and the company name of the seller.  They also include the delivery address and any special instructions.  Our customer’s will often call and ask for a copy of the acknowledgement if they didn’t receive it automatically after the order is processed. 

It is good for both the buyer and the seller when the buyer gets the confirmation of the order.  It is a check point for everyone.  The customer has a chance to review the order for accuracy.  Then they can contact the seller in case something is wrong with the order. 

Sometimes people need acknowledgement too.  Actually, we all do.  I think it is a basic human need to want to be noticed and appreciated.  To know we are of some value to someone else.  To know that we matter. 

 We can see this need in others.  We all have.  The lonely person who sits quietly in the corner hardly daring to raise their eyes as someone walks by.  The child at school who might not have the right clothes or who had no help with homework the night before.  Sometimes you can see the loneliness in their eyes. 

Perhaps we’ve felt that way ourselves.  Sometimes we can be in a room full of people and still feel totally alone.  We know the relief we feel when someone comes along and speaks to us.  Maybe a co-worker thanks you for help her make that deadline with her report.  Maybe someone takes the time to sit down and talks to us. 

Jesus sought out the lonely.  He had compassion for them.  He helped the brokenhearted widow whose son had died.  He acknowledged her sorrow.  He valued her and her son. 

Jesus may have known she had no one else to care for her.  He told her “Do not weep.” Jesus went to the bier and said, “Young man, I say to you arise.”  The son was returned to his mother.  (Luke 7:11-17)

Jesus acknowledged the lepers.  He healed the blind and the lame.  He loved the poor and the outcast.  He had compassion on the multitude and fed them. 

There is something we can do for the lonely and left out today.  We can acknowledge them.  We can affirm their worth.  We can encourage and comfort them.  We re-establish our own worth when we give worth to others - when we are merciful, and kind and gentle.     

“ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”  Matthew 25:40

Christ above all things - Robin