TEMPORARY THINGS
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Introduction
Introduction
Dilbert
Dilbert
In a Chicago Tribune profile about the creator of the syndicated comic strip “Dilbert,” Jane Meredith Adams writes:
In an office just slightly bigger than a cubicle, Scott Adams transforms tales of idiotic bosses and meaningless empowerment teams into Dilbert, the chinless comic-strip hero to millions of cubicle-confined workers.
Since Adams published his Internet address (scottadams@aol.com), he has been deluged with questions from readers who wonder how he knows the exact level of ineptitude with which their company operates. It’s because he has been there. Adams endured 17 years of cubicle employment—most recently as an applications engineer with Pacific Bell, a job he left last year after six years of “Dilbert” syndication.
“I don’t think I’ll ever forget what it feels like to sit in a cubicle,” says the cartoonist, “and realize you’ve been there for eight hours … and everything you did today will become unimportant in the next reorganization.”
Scott Adams expresses a feeling we’re all familiar with. We want what we do to last. Our work (and even our life) doesn’t seem important if it is only temporary. The sure hope we have in God is that all we do for him has eternal significance.
Context of the Text
Context of the Text
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Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Sermonic Claim
Sermonic Claim