Article June 22, 1992 Issue

VIP or vital spiritual idea?

If we categorize others as "important" or "unimportant" people, we will miss seeing the goodness and glory of the real man, made in God's likeness.

Tony Lobl

At one time, while employed by a video editing firm, I was asked to work on a charity project that would also involve a well-known person. We would be working directly together.

I was surprised by what a struggle this became! Until the very morning of the event, I found all kinds of fears for my role in the project intimidating me. Yet it wasn't any more difficult, technically, than similar jobs that I had undertaken previously.

Clearly the problem was the involvement of the VIP, or "very important person"! In the book of Acts the Apostle Peter is recorded as having had to learn that there is no room for a Christian disciple to be a "respecter of persons." As I prayed, it became clear to me I was being just that! My thought was so focused on the public image of the person with whom I would be working that I was judging her according to the popular perception of her character. In the assortment of thoughts that attached themselves to this way of picturing her, I found that the human mind faced with fame is tempted either to adore or depreciate its possessor.

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