I have a friend who used to work at Disneyland, and he said that when he was trained, there was one value emphasized above all others: What puts the magic in the Magic Kingdom is servanthood. They are told that when you are in the kingdom, when you walk through those gates, you serve. Whatever your job is, you are a servant.
You treat every encounter with people as if they were your personal guest. If they need directions, escort them. If they ask a question and you have heard it a hundred times, answer it as if you have never heard it before…
Jesus said that what puts the magic into His kingdom is serving, because “the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve” (Mathew 20:28). His is not a kingdom about status and climbing ladders and getting attention. The best you is built by serving, and God’s kingdom is one of those kingdoms where if you don’t want to serve, you won’t really want to be there. Sometimes God will interrupt us in our work, not to give us a chance to show off our giftedness, but simply to give us a chance to serve…
The day is coming when God will look at His faithful servants and say, “Well done.” He will say it to faithful employees who give themselves diligently to work that never earns much human recognition. He will say it to workers who know they could have climbed higher if they had cut corners or manipulated others. He will say it to single parents who cared for kids – bathing them, feeding them, cleaning up after them – when they were tired and thought nobody was looking.
Somebody is looking. Someone is keeping track. It is worth it.
-- John Ortberg in “The Me I Want to Be”
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