Many may have taken their work as an end in itself. Such people act like they are never going to leave the position they occupy. Rather than building people, they build walls around themselves. We forget we are not the first to occupy the position and we are never going to be the last, but act as if we are the Alpha and the Omega.
The Bible tells us that there is nothing we have that has not been given to us and why act like we got it by ourselves.
You are the boss right? You probably think your competence got you the position. Yes, you are right, your competence qualified you for the role, but if it was by competence alone, Joseph would not have been the prime minister in Egypt and there was no way David could have been king over Israel.
We act this way because we are self centered, forgetting that God put us in that position for His reason. Our greed for power, fame, money, subtle as it might be, pushes us to neglect righteousness and follow the path of ungodliness in the pursuit of nothingness.
I just buried my Mum this weekend and this gave me an opportunity to see and reflect on the fruitless pursuit of nothingness.
The house we grew up in is now under lock as my parents are both gone. Thank God they didn’t do more than necessary, still, they have left all that behind now.
While home during the burial period too, I saw the big houses we used to look at then and think “why are my parents not this rich to be able to build such an edifice”. There was a particular one that used to have a satellite dish.
Guess what, it has now been turned to a school. Another one was deserted with broken windows, doors and grasses all around.
Imagine what went into building those houses but what have they turned to now? Am not suggesting we shouldn’t live in good houses but the problem is when the pursuit of these big houses and other things take the place of godliness.
We are called to seek God first and His righteousness. Your primary work is to seek God first in all you do at work because this is where you get everlasting rewards that never perish.
God bless you
Akindele Afolabi
Christian Employee Series
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”
Ecclesiastes 1:2-4 KJV