day 267: Interior Design

While not everyone thinks this way, I think where we work matters. It is not all about the exterior building as much as it is in the interior design and the individual workspace where we sit, work, and where we meet. Each company has their own specifications and personality that they need to match with the space and design. What I am amazed by is the amount of time and money that goes into the original design, furniture, and colors, etc., but the little amount of time and resources that are allocated to keep the workplace clean, up to date and repaired. The broken window theory is so true. Not many people will be the first person to throw the rock and break a window. But if those who pass by daily see the broken window never repaired, then before long, someone will pick up a rock and break the next window and so on and so on. The same thing happens with the first cigarette butt, the scuff on the wall, the the spilled coffee stain, and the next one and the next one. So, it is important to keep the interior design as clean and pristine as possible, that is if you want to keep the place nice going forward. If we believe that the interior design is important to how people feel about where they work, then how we keep the interior design fresh and clean, is just as important...if not more important. The same is true about each of us as we think about the interior design of our lives. It is a daily update that is necessary if we are to stay as pure as God wants us to be, and as pure as those around us need us to be. Paul tells us to constantly be testing ourselves to see if we can see Jesus in us; "Examine yourselves to see if your faith is really genuine. If you cannot tell that Jesus Christ is among you, it means that you have failed the test." Just like we need to always be looking at the facilities around us to see that they have not fallen into disrepair, we need to be in a constant state of refurbishing our own interior design.

Reference: 2 Corinthians 13:5 (New Living Testament)