The manufacturing business is a weird industry. Here you can’t even deviate one millimetre from any process, because the negative impact will be just enormous. Suddenly poor quality forces you to employ more people– and before you know it expenditure is up and output down. Therefore, it is always extremely important that minimum standards are met at each and every station. It’s exhausting, but like a sergeant major in the army you have to watch every process like a hawk to ensure that it is carried out a hundred per cent correctly. Adhering to the processes will give good results.
It seems to me the lives of God’s children are exactly the same. The processes according to which we live life are continuously being changed by God’s Word so that a better output can be achieved. Cut off a bit here, change something there, clean this, ask forgiveness, and try again. I try very hard, and yes, sometimes it is all becomes too much. But, really, we shouldn’t be defeated by a bit of hard work, but rather keep our eyes on the outcome, the output. We must realise that God is shaping us to fit His shape. He has this big dream for us, and we can only achieve it with some hard work. Therefore, we must at all times ensure that our processes are correct, that we are on the road that God wants us to be on, and that we don’t deviate one single millimetre from that road. Allow the Spirit to shape you. Listen to Jesus and to God’s Word. 5This, in essence, is the message we heard from Christ and are passing on to you: God is light, pure light; there's not a trace of darkness in him. Jesus came as a shining light to our dark world to bring light indeed. Jesus’ light shone on our lives and processes to show us where something is wrong. He came to show us precisely what the outcome of our processes to live life would be. And it is not a good place. It is a place where darkness reigns – the hell. It is bad to see that place and know that you will never get to a place where you can live happily. But what do we do now? Man has been living his life like this for centuries. Can we simply change the process around and think it will work? Fortunately, we know Jesus was not just a shining light. He did something. He taught us what the right processes are. He told us to first love our God and then others as we love ourselves. He taught us that we can make a difference. He showed us that he believed so much in what He came to do that He died on the cross to make it easier for us to one day achieve the desired outcome. But even more, God sent His Spirit to help us with our processes. We will have to come back to our processes again and again. We will have to find the places that really, really need renewal. Together with the Holy Spirit shining the light we will have to make sure that each part of the process of our lives work optimally. We will have to watch out for the dust that thickens the lubricants and throws a spanner in the works. We will have to work hard so that our lives will run on well-oiled wheels and reflect Jesus’ light. Then we will be able to play our part in God’s dream well and produce the outcome that we need to produce. Reflection Which processes are not yet working so well? What can you do? Where can you get help? How much light is shining from you? Comments are closed.
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