Back in 1978, Steve Jobs went to the home of a Hewlett-Packard software engineer and asked him to take a pay cut but come work for a new tech company called Apple. He put an Apple II on the table for his 4-year-old son to play with and said, “If your dad comes to work for me, you can keep this computer.” By the weekend, he decided to resign from HP and go work for Apple. He was their first VP of software and the manager for the Apple Lisa, the computer that preceded the Macintosh. He left in 1984 and Jobs was pushed out a year later. Jobs ended up back at Apple in the late 90s, recruited John Couch a second time, and when his career was ready for change he rejoined Apple as its VP of Education…
And tonight me and my boys had the privilege of FaceTime-ing him for almost an hour to talk about some tech history, his life, being a Christian in Silicon Valley, and how God works things out for his glory. I asked him, “My boys can’t appreciate this, and I can’t even appreciate this, but when you had a part in introducing computers that used a Graphical User Interface to the world, could you have imagined that in a tiny part of the world there would be a little 20-year-old with no wisdom but a bunch of zeal using what you helped lay the foundation for to make a radio broadcast on a tiny station in our town and a podcast that somehow went far beyond our little town?”
He replied, “We won’t see the impact we made until we are in heaven sitting at the feet of Jesus.” And without even asking him to, he ended the conversation by asking me if he could pray for me and my sons…
To say I am just the smallest bit excited is an understatement. 🙂 Christian, big or small, famous or not famous, rich or poor, genius or average, God has his people everywhere… and you are one of them. Don’t compare your gifts and opportunities to others, but realize that he has you right where he can use you to be a blessing to this world in ways that you’ll never realize until you’re “in heaven sitting at the feet of Jesus.”
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