AN AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALIST

Steve Jobs wasn't soft and he didn't need government subsidies.  He was a self-made man who created products that made America clamor for them.

I watched him on YouTube as he addressed the 2005 graduating class @ Stanford.

One of the things he said was that his birth mother chose adoption under the condition that he be sent to college.  She thought college would be the formula for his success.

But Mr. Jobs seems to have always been a bit of a round peg in a square hole.  He was the kid thinking out of the box.

It only took a semester for Mr. Jobs to start/quit college.  Subsequently he  "audited" classes.  And without the help of this popularly-agreed-on-formula for success, he heard a creative Voice that breathed innovation into his abilities.  The outworking of those innovations went around the globe.  Wiki says this genius was primary or co-inventor on 338 US patents or applications.

His corporations grew exponentially from nothing (a couple of kids in a garage) to become a huge opportunity for Steve Jobs to offer livelihoods to many people.  He was VERY aptly named.


And it all came from a 70's hippie who made it big.  How ironic that his "big" is what the hippies protesting down @Wall Street would like now to redistribute.  For all of Jobs' great wealth, he was unlike Bill Gates; we know of no history of charitable giving.  In fact, in 2007 when SPJ took back Apple, he also cut out corporate philanthropy.  Ouch.

Although this entrepreneur changed the way business works, he did not change the way the universe works.  Steve Jobs left this world as we all will...to appear before God.

The True and Righteous Judge does not take into account the same things man takes into account when considering a life.  Man grades on the curve, thinking "ah, wasn't Steve Jobs amazing and didn't he have a positive impact on the whole world?"  Mr. Jobs may have had a profound impact on the way the world does business, but it was God who decided to bless mankind with those innovations.  Then He just looked for a vehicle.

When Steve Jobs breathed his last, He stood before God to be sent to the left or right.

That sheep/goats designation is based on Christ's righteousness.  God doesn't evaluate lives on a "goodness" balance scale.

The Ancient of Days checks for the admission ticket...Christ's imprint on a life. That imprint is the pearl of great price that comes when an individual heart humbles before God.



One of the joys of heaven will be seeing people again and I would love one day to be able to see Mr. Jobs and thank him for figuring out my favorite tools...the bigMac, iPhone, and iPad.

Perhaps SPJ knew the Savior.  Even though his bios say that he was a Buddhist, we know cancer can be a heart softener.

When it came right down to it, Steve Jobs either believed there was an Innovator...or that the innovation came from himself.