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| “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” |
| —Micah 6:8 |
It’s your second day in your new job. Yesterday, you spent the day filling out paperwork and taking a tour of the facility where you will now work. You met key people. Sat at your new desk and did a bit of organizing of it. Now, you must begin to do actual work.
Someone has placed a rather tall pile of file folders on your desk. Obviously, you are supposed to do something with what’s inside those folders. But, you have no clue. No one has shown you what you must do. You sit there for a while. You even open one of the folders and look at the contents. You look around to see what your fellow workers are doing. You sign. And, to yourself you whisper, “I wish someone would tell me what to do!”
The American Management Association declares, in several of its major research projects on improving worker productivity, that the number one thing workers want to happen is for someone, anyone, to tell them exactly what they’re supposed to do. As a long-term management consultant, I can’t for the life of me imagine why this necessary direction isn’t given automatically. Don’t managers realize they must train their employees exactly how to perform the tasks that make up their jobs?
As followers of Jesus, we do not have to ask God what He wants us to do. He has clearly told us in His written Word, the Bible. In fact, notice what the Prophet Micah has shared, as found in Micah 6:8:
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Wow! Here’s just one of many places in Scripture where God speaks to us through His choice servant and tells us what we need to do. Can we ask any more than that? No, we can’t.
So, as this new day begins, let’s get to work. Okay?
