Word for the Week

Be career-minded!

Week beginning: 30th April, 2023 | By Niazi Fetto | London/France

"To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life... I will give some of the hidden manna… I will give him a white stone, with a new name… I will give authority over the nations… I will give the morning star… I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels… I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God… I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name… I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne."

Revelation 2:7, 17, 26, 3: 5, 12, 21 (extracts) (ESV)

Are you career-minded, a goal-setter? Should you be?

The ambitious lawyer eyes the next rung, the next gong, the next big achievement. On my side of the profession, it's pupillage, tenancy, silk, judicial office, appellate office... and of course si