What Can You Do For Me?
When some folks become supervisors, they immediately begin to think of how it will benefit them: help with their work load, more prestige, advancement, more money, or someone to order around. Let me introduce you to another thought: You are not a supervisor to benefit you. You are a supervisor to benefit God's purpose in your life, the company and to support and guide those who work for you. Often supervisors forget that everyone who is being paid by the company is there to benefit the company. It's not about you. Whether you work for an extremely appreciative company or an extremely unpleasant company, you are there to benefit the business. The business is not there to benefit you. Sounds rather harsh but it is a business fact. Only unhappy employees fail to realize this fact, fail to come to grips with the reality, and fail to adjust their attitude to make their contribution significant.
I picture one supervisor I know who always had his feet on his desk. He'd lean back and smirk at his employees when he talked with them. It gave a very clear impression he was thinking he was at the advantage. It also gave the impression of an arrogant jerk but that was more like his employees' quotes. Whether deliberate or not, he gave the impression the employees were there to serve him.
If done correctly, supervising is hard work. Some people are more "natural" supervisors than others but everyone can be a benefit to the company and to their employees if you just practice the advice in scripture. Yes, it always comes back to that doesn't it? Galatians 5:13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Serve one another, serve one another, serve one another: I repeat because it is so seldom displayed in the work place. It's not an option; it's an order. Over and over in the Bible, we are given instruction to love one another by service. If you get up in the morning with a "service attitude" and love in your heart - oh, brother, what beautiful things you can accomplish.
Galatians 5 continues:14-15 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed (destroyed) one of another." Even in hours of working hard for your employer, if your heart is in the right place, you will have the blessings of our Lord and the contentment that comes through that knowledge. God does want to be in your workplace, your home as well as the church. He expects you to devote your manner of thinking in the workplace to His direction ~ in this case: service and love. Come home after your work shift with a joy that can only come from knowing you tried your best to serve God by mirroring Jesus in your work place. Galatians 5:25 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."
I picture one supervisor I know who always had his feet on his desk. He'd lean back and smirk at his employees when he talked with them. It gave a very clear impression he was thinking he was at the advantage. It also gave the impression of an arrogant jerk but that was more like his employees' quotes. Whether deliberate or not, he gave the impression the employees were there to serve him.
If done correctly, supervising is hard work. Some people are more "natural" supervisors than others but everyone can be a benefit to the company and to their employees if you just practice the advice in scripture. Yes, it always comes back to that doesn't it? Galatians 5:13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Serve one another, serve one another, serve one another: I repeat because it is so seldom displayed in the work place. It's not an option; it's an order. Over and over in the Bible, we are given instruction to love one another by service. If you get up in the morning with a "service attitude" and love in your heart - oh, brother, what beautiful things you can accomplish.
Galatians 5 continues:14-15 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed (destroyed) one of another." Even in hours of working hard for your employer, if your heart is in the right place, you will have the blessings of our Lord and the contentment that comes through that knowledge. God does want to be in your workplace, your home as well as the church. He expects you to devote your manner of thinking in the workplace to His direction ~ in this case: service and love. Come home after your work shift with a joy that can only come from knowing you tried your best to serve God by mirroring Jesus in your work place. Galatians 5:25 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."
posted by Diane Gibson at
8:05 AM
