Didn't Miss A Beat

Within two days at my husband's work, (1) A young man was killed on his motorcycle turning into the employee parking lot. (2) A single mother's son was murdered in what may be a gang related killing. (3) When a middle aged man didn't show up for work Monday, they found what appeared to be his wife's murder and his suicide. All so tragic and sad.

Although fellow employees were shocked and grieving for the families, this large corporation didn't miss a beat. The work was immediately assigned to others and no projects was adversely affected. This observation is not condemnation of the corporate world, it is a fact of business.

A lesson on big business: Do you feel you must sacrifice your God time, your family time, and your sanity? The bare fact is if you are gone in the next second, someone will pick up the task. The corporation will not miss a beat - even if the people personally miss you. If this is a fact, think thoughtfully about your motives for sacrificing.

Does doing something perfect, although it requires extra time, matter to God's purpose or to your ego?

Does having everything done at the end of each day accomplish a God deadline or does it allow your mind to tick off "mission accomplished".

Does serving on all the teams, committees, conference calls, and projects allow time for little league, coaching the kids, music lessons, vacations, supper as a family, devotions, visiting relatives, supporting your loved ones? Or, are you simply picking what you like to do best at the expense of God and family?

As you hurry to get to work early, work through lunch, stay late, come in weekends, is God with you at these times? Or, is He patiently waiting at the breakfast table with your children before school, waiting with your colleagues at lunch where you would have been able to lead them to Christ, waiting beside your spouse as she cheers at the soccer game all alone, waiting to comfort your parents when they are confused about a problem and no one is there to assist them, waiting beside the bed as your spouse looks at the ceiling alone and thinks of what became of your marriage vows.

Your company may not miss a beat if you should leave this earth tonight, but your loved ones will. Do not let the tragedy of loosing you be compounded by an entire relationship with family members where they never had you.

Proverbs 15:27 "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts (bribes) shall live."

Proverbs 16:3 & 5 "Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established." "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished."