| “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 |
Here’s a scenario to which we all can likely relate:
It’s a person’s second day in his or her new job. Yesterday, this one spent the day filling out paperwork and taking a tour of the facility where he or she will now work. This person met key people. Sat at his or her new desk and did a bit of organizing of it. Now, it’s time to begin to do actual work.
Someone has placed a rather tall pile of file folders on this one’s desk. Obviously, he or she is supposed to do something with what’s inside those folders. But, this one has no clue. No one has shown him or her what to do.
This person sits there for a while. He or she even opens one of the folders and look at the contents. This one looks around to see what the other workers are doing. He or she sighs, and, to his or her self whispers:
“I wish someone would, very directly, tell me what I am supposed 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 always clearly tell their employees what tasks they are to perform, and that 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?
