When we understand the deprivation derived from being ignorant in life, one would do everything possible to eschew it.
Can we know everything? I don’t think so, we will always have areas we are blindsided and that should not bother us much.
However, it is worrisome if we are ignorant in areas where we are meant to be informed and knowledgeable.
The lot of an individual caught up in ignorance where he/she should have understanding is summarized in the following quote from the Bible;
“A man [who is held] in honor, Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.”
Psalms 49:20 AMP
As Christian employees, we wield such a power that no Board of Director can stand it when we take a position on certain things in our organizations in line with the purpose of God. Unfortunately, majority of us are like the beasts that perish.
A friend once narrated her story when she decided to exercise dominion over a certain situation at her place of work.
According to her, she wasn’t expecting promotion at a point because she was recently promoted, but getting to work on a particular day, it appeared that many of her colleagues had expected her name to be included on the just released promotion list but was not.
With the buzz of the news of the promotion that many felt she was going to be part of but was not, she thought perhaps she could have been promoted truly so she decided to take on the challenge of getting the promotion.
This time, not by running to HR to complain or to her line manager to ask questions or plead to be included on the list, but she decided to exercise her authority as a child of God.
She took three days off to cry unto God. Before the end of the third day, things started shifting on her behalf.
Mind you, it is part of the policy of the organisation that once a promotion list has been posted, it can never be altered in any way, but not in her own case when she subjected the whole situation to a force higher than the organizational policy maker. Let me spare you the details, her name was added to the promotion list.
The major lesson here is not that she got the promotion but that she realized that she had power over the situation and she decided to use.
How many times do we fall victims to our ignorance of the type of power we have as children of God, letting inconsequential situations at work deprive us of our joy and God’s plan for us?
We really do not know the power of God that works in us and that is why we are not a force to reckon with at work.
We will continue to underperform as far as God is concerned until we realize what power has been deposited inside of us as Christians in the marketplace.
As Paul said to Timothy, let us stir up this potential that is in us that we might take our place.
God bless you.
Akindele Afolabi.
Christian Employee Series