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5 People Leaders Know They Can Count On

3. You can count on the team member who is always in his place, doing his job, sometimes at great inconvenience to himself. He is diligent.

Paul said, “But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need” (Philippians 2:25). That by itself is praise aplenty—brother, co-laborer, brother in the fight, your messenger, my servant!—but it gets better …

“He was longing to see you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. Indeed, he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but also on me, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow” (2:26-27).

Sickness did not stop this brother! He kept right on. Amazing.

“Hold men like him in high regard,” Paul says (2:29).

We do indeed, Paul.

Lord, give us more faithful workers in the kingdom like Epaphroditus! Make me that kind of disciple.