Expecting God's Blessing in 2019 Part 5 In the Workplace too?

Have you ever been in a job that you just love? Where there are virtually no problems or maybe the problems are minimal.

If you have, considered yourself blessed because I would venture to say that most of us haven't been in a job as such.

Sometimes we complain and cry that things are just not fair. "Someone else got the promotion that I deserved" or " I didn't get the vacation time I wanted because they let someone else have that week." Or, "I deserve to be paid more money than that measly amount they gave me this year."

Believe me, I know this all too well. In the last job I had, and after I had been there for several years, it was found out that the CEO of the company had been stealing company monies and cooking the books. When he was caught, the company was in a crisis situation financially. The 'higher ups' if you will, went scurrying around trying to find ways to cut spending so that they could get caught up. And one way was to cut each employee 10% of their income for as long as it needed to be until the company was back in the black again. We were told that could take a year or longer. And none of us was happy. I had been there for 5 years and given more than my share of time to the work there, and there were others that were there longer than that. The gossip was endless in those days. Many people quit. It was not fair that so many people were made to pay for the crimes of one man. And there were many employees because where I worked was just one of 5 different organizations under the umbrella of this company. And yet, that is what happened.  Sad to say, for those people that been faithful to our employer, because of one man, If we wanted to keep our jobs, that was our trade-off.

There are all kinds of reasons for us to be dissatisfied in the workplace. Some of it is because of someone else. Some of it may be from our own doing. The people we work with can do so much complaining, that it can affect everyone's job performance. Just by one person starting to complain, it can jump from one person to another and before long that is mostly all that gets accomplished.

Whatever it is, can make us so unhappy that we slack off and don't do the work that we were hired in for.as well as it should be done.  "The boss can like it or lump it." Might be our attitude. Some people just up and quit when they don't like something. Or they may try to make the boss angry so that they get fired.

Christians can go up against a firing line of hate in some places of employment. This in itself is unsettling and while their intentions are noble for wanting to witness of what God has done for them, they can be discouraged to the point of just keeping quiet or quitting.

Ephesians 9:10 says that whatever our hands finds to do, we are to do it with all our might.

As Christians especially we are to be obedient to God. Evaluating in our jobs what is his will for us. What he wants us to do about the complaining and gossip that goes around.Whether to stay or go. But always being ready to do what we are paid to do, not grudgingly and if we stay, how to handle the situations that come up that are unpleasant.

Because in my own job situation those few years ago, I ended up leaving. But it wasn't because of the money. Oh sure, I was mad about that and I am ashamed about it because I didn't act very much like a Christian during that time. But other things were going on that I just could not go along with. It was better for me to get out, and when I did, it was not in a hateful way against anyone. I knew my time had ended there and God was actually giving me a way out of some crazy stuff going on within our own group. And I have never regretted it. Sure, I have much less income now, but a lot less stress as well!

We are called to be the "salt and light' of the earth. Mathew 5:16. But what does that actually mean to us as believers? Come back tomorrow for the answer.

January 7, 2019 Promise: I am he, who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake and remembers your sins no more! Isaiah 43:25

Thanks or coming by today Friends. Have a blessed day and pass your blessings on to someone else!