The rigamorole of the rat race...

OK, sometimes I wake up in the morning and I think, "Who came up with the idea of working for someone else?" I mean aren't we really just wage slaves trapped in the peonage of indetured servitude? Someone, anyone... where are my forty acres and a mule?

Regardless of the job, task or duty I believe that once we make a commitment to a situation we must do our best wether or not we like it. We have come under an obligation to perform the service we are paid to do even if we don't like it. (Romans 13:1)

People often talk to me about not having a choice when it comes to work. I say, MULARKEY! There are hundreds to thousands of jobs available each day that pay a decent living wage. The problem is that it is not the job or choice one ususally wants to make. We are content to suffer and complain rather than to make the obvious, albeit diffcult, choice to leave a job that we aren't happy with. Did Abraham stay or go to Canaan? (Genesis 12)

To use an analogy, have you ever met someone and knew without a doubt that you really liked this person? Did you know that you could become close friends? On the other hand, how many times have you met someone and thought, "Yikes! This is not the person for me to be around?"

The point is that we consistently beleive that familiarity actually breeds comfort, respect, or enjoyment. Why we beleive that is unknown to me. In fact, I don't hesitate to say that the longer we know someone or are in a job the less respectful, congenial, and polite we are. Have you ever asked yourself why you treat strangers politely and your spouse not so considerately?

In a job, regardless if you have been there one year or one hundred, it is a good idea to remember that it is a job and it is a professional situation. If we treat everyone well, we are likely to get the same treatment back. Naturally, this makes for a better work situation.

Overall, the point of this post is to say, make the best of your work sitution. Remember that whatever we do in word or deed do it to the glory of God. (Colossians 3:17)