Leave With Class

Leave with Class

My two older brothers are Aggies. As we got together for dinner heading into the 2015 Christmas holiday and the college football bowl season, I asked, “What’s the deal with your Aggie quarterbacks?” You see, in the same week, two of their quarterbacks, Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray, both the number-one-ranked quarterbacks of their respective classes coming out of high school, left Texas A&M looking to play somewhere else.

Not only was this a blow to the program, but it seemed their timing couldn’t have been any worse, leaving two weeks before the Aggies would play in the Music City Bowl. From the outside looking in, it seemed that something just wasn’t right at Kyle Field. With that said, my oldest brother, Keith, responded, “Even if they were treated poorly, there’s a better way to leave than two weeks before the bowl.”

Leaving well seems to be a lost art because we don’t think about our reputations over the long haul. Each of us is going to leave our employment at one point or another. Listen to Proverbs 22:1, which states, “Choose a good reputation over great riches; being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.”

When we leave a job, we will say more about our character in that moment than we did during the entire time of our service there. When we follow Christ as Savior and are on his team, his name on the front of the jersey matters so much more than our name on the back.

Choose a good reputation over great riches; being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.

Proverbs 22:1