Saturday, September 26, 2015

Start Time: 6:28 AM

End Time: 6:57 AM

Title: Take a Break from Bickering and Griping

Scriptures: Proverbs 22:10

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Amazing day with Jesus!  Today, I'm having a great time with God!  So much to learn from Him each day.  God has taught me something even before I opened the bible today.  For the past few days, I kept on griping (express a complaint or grumble about something, especially something trivial) about work.  My work is not something trivial however my complaints are.  For the past few days, I have been talking to my sister about how tired I am having 3 works, how I want to quit, etc.  Then early this morning before I opened my Bible, I watched a video posted in FB and it contained an audio conversation between a customer service agent and a PLDT customer.  It was terrible and the customer was being polite but he was hassled so he may have use some fowl language but definitely not directed to the agent, however the agent misunderstood it and took it personally and broke down.  In short, she (agent) was unprofessional and way out of line.  As I contemplate in this, I realized that the agent may have gone through a lot of things during that day but she chose to let her anger out to an innocent customer which caused the terrible fight.  Then God showed me that the agent was too focused on herself, which caused her to breakdown, like how the job benefited her, how it is stressing her so much, how it is becoming toxic, etc...when in fact, the job of that lady was being a customer service, meaning to help!  So the focus of the lady, instead of helping is now turned into how is this job going to benefit me?  And this brought me to my own way of thinking.  God showed me that for the past few days I have been griping and murmuring about how tired I am and how I want to quit, because I was solely focus on what this job can do for me!  I forgot the purpose of this job, which is to help those who are in debt, to help those who need work and those who are looking for work.  So that's why my 3 jobs are becoming toxic because I was so focused on what I can get from them when I should have been focused on the main purpose of the job and that is to help others.  So God is telling me, Kick out the troublemakers and things will quiet down - in my case, the troublemakers is my own selfish thinking and once I changed my perception or my way of thinking, I will then realize that the complaints will fade and quiet down.  I will have a break from all this griping or complaining.  Thank You Lord!

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank You for a powerful and amazing truth today!  I am blessed that You are able to show me my wrong doings and allowed me to work on myself to become more productive.  Thank You Jesus because Your word causes my way of thinking to change and to be aligned to Your purpose.  Help me Lord to remember this at all times that I may always find myself doing my work with a purpose to help others and not think of myself only.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Memory Verse Share for today:

Proverbs 22:10 (The Message Version)

Kick out the troublemakers and things will quiet down; you need a break from bickering and griping.

Have you been bickering and griping lately?  Take a break from all the complaints and arguments y kicking out the troublemakers.  Note though that sometimes, the troublemakers are just us.  I have been complaining about work for some time now and God made me realized that the cause of all my complaints is my wrong thinking.  I kept on thinking how my work can benefit me or what can I get from it?  And this is causing me to be unsatisfied because I am missing the point!  When God gave Adam and Eve their responsibilities (work), it was to take care of the land, the animals and to multiply. All of those works are for the purpose of helping others - the animals, the land even their offspring!  So in short, our work is more for others than it is for us!  So the reason why I kept complaining is because I failed to see that my main purpose in work is to help others and how I can be of service to them.

May we find our main purpose in everything we do!

Happy Saturday guys!