Obedience...
Hey Fam!!
I hope you all had a great day! I will tell you, for me it was ONE OF THEM DAYS (in my Monica voice for my older R&B people)!! You see, I had a huge project that got dropped on my desk yesterday. Things were done wrong, balls were dropped, and this account was a HOT MESS. Well, the problem wasn't the work that was done wrong or missed, the problem was the Client Relationship. You see, it wasn't just one single account. It was actually 5. And then there was a lot of things that were done, therefore, it was no longer only 5 accounts. It was actually 17 ACCOUNTS AFFECTED!! Let me tell you, coming up with a game plan on how to get this all fixed by the end of business Friday (as in tomorrow) was going to prove to be a challenge. Gotta love Year-End business activity.
Well, by the end of the day yesterday, God had given me an organized game plan ready to execute for this morning. All I needed was some help. Well, little did I know that the Lord had already inspired my manager to assign me some help before I had even made it to the office. All I had to do was get with my 2 teammates that my manager assigned, explain to them how the project was organized and what to do and look for. They understood and we all got to rocking!! About 3 hours in, I began to get emails and messages from a teammate on a partner team in another state. She was trying to "help" but her way of helping was disorganizing the bigger picture and would make the work that we were doing already inefficient and possibly confuse the issue more. I consulted with my manager and we both agreed that since she was starting work related to one of the 5 accounts we were working, that we'd just hand over the file related to that account and let her work that one. I was glad to have the help, we just all needed to stay organized in the process.
Needless to say she was NOT happy that she was "assigned" an account to work. That's should have been a red flag. About one hour later or so, she had emailed me and told me about all these errors that she found and what she corrected. The problem was that the she ONLY corrected things that either she or her immediate teammate missed or error-ed in. Which was not the plan. I caught myself get pretty frustrated about it. I went and told my manager what happened and we would keep the report that we agreed to give the other lady, and that the girls and I here would handle the project ourselves.
After I vented with my manager, I went back to my desk to get back to the project. After a while the Lord began to reveal things to me. He revealed to me that just like the teammate in the other state was picking and choosing what SHE wanted to do from the assignment given to her rather than the entire package as she was given, so do we pick and choose the things WE want to do from an assignment HE gives us.
Just like her, sometimes we don't want to be responsible for fixing the mistakes of others in order to make things right in the bigger picture. So we ignore that part of the assignment. Sometimes we only want to work the easy items that we can do quickly and be done with, rather than have to buckle down and do some real analysis and discovery (especially on ourselves) because that not only takes time, but takes some real thought. Sometimes the things are really hard to figure out and you have to go through many stages in order to find out where certain things came from and why it looks the way it looks now.
Just like her, sometimes we forget that OUR part of the assignment that HE gives us, is only one part of the large project that the Lord has for the world. If we are picking and choosing what we will do of the assignment that HE gives us, how does that really reflect on the Kingdom? For example, at work, if the client who owns all those accounts is unhappy at the end of the project, they will not say "ANA messed up my account". They will say Tax messed up my account. That is a collection of people, no matter where they are located.
It's the same with the Kingdom. When someone who is not saved looks to the Christian Faith and sees a Christian who is not fulfilling the assignment that they were given by the Lord in it's entirety, it's not an immediate reflection on the person. It is a reflection on the Kingdom. We look hypocritical. We do not look like true followers of Christ.
A true follower of Christ will accept all parts of their assignment, even if it's difficult, looks inconvenient, or appears to possibly cause a level of harm or pain. I'm sure that when Abraham received the instruction to sacrifice his son, Isaac, (Genesis 22) he knew that it was going to be difficult, cause a tremendous level of harm and pain, and be obviously inconvenient. But he was obedient. He prayed the whole time, he was afraid, but he was OBEDIENT. And through his obedience, God provided the sacrifice and Abraham's son was spared.
What's your assignment? What steps or parts of your assignment have you disregarded as too difficult or painful to complete? What are the instructions you skipped, therefore, only doing the easier parts of your instructions? How are you holding up another part of the project just because you have not followed all the instructions of your assignment? Do you even realize that your assignment is actually tied to something else? When you look at your life, and you see something stagnant, do you see an area where maybe you failed to follow through on your instructions? I do. And it's time to start executing Obedience. Are you ready to examine yours?
I love you all!!! Be Blessed!!!!
I hope you all had a great day! I will tell you, for me it was ONE OF THEM DAYS (in my Monica voice for my older R&B people)!! You see, I had a huge project that got dropped on my desk yesterday. Things were done wrong, balls were dropped, and this account was a HOT MESS. Well, the problem wasn't the work that was done wrong or missed, the problem was the Client Relationship. You see, it wasn't just one single account. It was actually 5. And then there was a lot of things that were done, therefore, it was no longer only 5 accounts. It was actually 17 ACCOUNTS AFFECTED!! Let me tell you, coming up with a game plan on how to get this all fixed by the end of business Friday (as in tomorrow) was going to prove to be a challenge. Gotta love Year-End business activity.
Well, by the end of the day yesterday, God had given me an organized game plan ready to execute for this morning. All I needed was some help. Well, little did I know that the Lord had already inspired my manager to assign me some help before I had even made it to the office. All I had to do was get with my 2 teammates that my manager assigned, explain to them how the project was organized and what to do and look for. They understood and we all got to rocking!! About 3 hours in, I began to get emails and messages from a teammate on a partner team in another state. She was trying to "help" but her way of helping was disorganizing the bigger picture and would make the work that we were doing already inefficient and possibly confuse the issue more. I consulted with my manager and we both agreed that since she was starting work related to one of the 5 accounts we were working, that we'd just hand over the file related to that account and let her work that one. I was glad to have the help, we just all needed to stay organized in the process.
Needless to say she was NOT happy that she was "assigned" an account to work. That's should have been a red flag. About one hour later or so, she had emailed me and told me about all these errors that she found and what she corrected. The problem was that the she ONLY corrected things that either she or her immediate teammate missed or error-ed in. Which was not the plan. I caught myself get pretty frustrated about it. I went and told my manager what happened and we would keep the report that we agreed to give the other lady, and that the girls and I here would handle the project ourselves.
After I vented with my manager, I went back to my desk to get back to the project. After a while the Lord began to reveal things to me. He revealed to me that just like the teammate in the other state was picking and choosing what SHE wanted to do from the assignment given to her rather than the entire package as she was given, so do we pick and choose the things WE want to do from an assignment HE gives us.
Just like her, sometimes we don't want to be responsible for fixing the mistakes of others in order to make things right in the bigger picture. So we ignore that part of the assignment. Sometimes we only want to work the easy items that we can do quickly and be done with, rather than have to buckle down and do some real analysis and discovery (especially on ourselves) because that not only takes time, but takes some real thought. Sometimes the things are really hard to figure out and you have to go through many stages in order to find out where certain things came from and why it looks the way it looks now.
Just like her, sometimes we forget that OUR part of the assignment that HE gives us, is only one part of the large project that the Lord has for the world. If we are picking and choosing what we will do of the assignment that HE gives us, how does that really reflect on the Kingdom? For example, at work, if the client who owns all those accounts is unhappy at the end of the project, they will not say "ANA messed up my account". They will say Tax messed up my account. That is a collection of people, no matter where they are located.
It's the same with the Kingdom. When someone who is not saved looks to the Christian Faith and sees a Christian who is not fulfilling the assignment that they were given by the Lord in it's entirety, it's not an immediate reflection on the person. It is a reflection on the Kingdom. We look hypocritical. We do not look like true followers of Christ.
A true follower of Christ will accept all parts of their assignment, even if it's difficult, looks inconvenient, or appears to possibly cause a level of harm or pain. I'm sure that when Abraham received the instruction to sacrifice his son, Isaac, (Genesis 22) he knew that it was going to be difficult, cause a tremendous level of harm and pain, and be obviously inconvenient. But he was obedient. He prayed the whole time, he was afraid, but he was OBEDIENT. And through his obedience, God provided the sacrifice and Abraham's son was spared.
What's your assignment? What steps or parts of your assignment have you disregarded as too difficult or painful to complete? What are the instructions you skipped, therefore, only doing the easier parts of your instructions? How are you holding up another part of the project just because you have not followed all the instructions of your assignment? Do you even realize that your assignment is actually tied to something else? When you look at your life, and you see something stagnant, do you see an area where maybe you failed to follow through on your instructions? I do. And it's time to start executing Obedience. Are you ready to examine yours?
I love you all!!! Be Blessed!!!!
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