"Be sure to do what you should, for then you will enjoy the
personal satisfaction of having done your work well..."
Many of us who are working today can remember work before the times
of voice mail, email, cell phones, air cards, texts, wifi, gogo, and even the internet.
It's hard to think about work before all of these great tools. They
have made us more productive and yes, probably because of the always
connected nature of these tools we have added some stress to our working
(and outside of work) lives. I also marvel at what we did for
knowledge accumulation and knowledge dissemination before the advent of
the search engine. Google is a verb and a household word today. We turn
to Google first (sorry bing and yahoo) to find something we don't know, for quotes, for
articles, yada, yada. We turn to Google and the other search engines for just
about everything we need or want to know. What did we ever do before
search engines? But search engines can't tell us everything we need to
know. We are faced with decisions each day at work about what is right
and what it wrong. We can't (yet) put a decision in a search engine and
have the search engine run an algorithm that will spit out what the is
the right thing to do in that situation. Fortunately, for us we have
the ultimate combination of a search engine that leads us in what these
right and wrong decisions should be.
Between our prayers, the Holy
Spirit, and the words given to us in the Bible and those who we are closest in our faith, we have our own algorithm
that are built for each of us personally. And we can see in Galatians
6:4 that when we search to God for what is right and wrong that we can
find what it is that we are supposed to do and find the outcome that we
can expect; "Be sure to do what you should, for then you will enjoy the
personal satisfaction of having done your work well..." Today you may be
searching for what is the right thing to do, the right decision, the
right words to resolve a situation with a co-worker, or you may be
looking for the right decision for what to do with your career. Today
you can know that you have an even more powerful search engine to access
for these decisions. You don't even have to be online as God is much
closer even than that to you, if you allow Him to be so. A search
engine even better than Google? Yes, you have it even closer to you than
your fingertips.
Reference: Galatians 6:4 (New Living Translation)
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