Seek first God’s kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (Matthew 6:33-34)

At your workplace your life is intertwined with the real stories, hurts, experiences, fears, success and failures of your co-workers. At the same time, your life is immersed in the scriptures, living and inhaling the love, hope, and grace of Christ. How do you connect these two kingdoms? Or are they two separate worlds?

Bridging these worlds occurs as you interact with people. It is in your relationships with people that you exhale the love, hope and grace of God.

I would suggest that you can connect these two worlds by seeking God and his righteousness in the midst of the all the stories that your life is intertwined with. Doing your work with excellence, constantly learning and improving your skills, will earn you the right to be heard and respected for constantly seeking God and his righteousness.

Seeking God requires an absolute trust in the solid rock of your loving Heavenly Father. There is no place for worry in your heart when you are wholeheartedly seeking God. A life of trust, a life without worry is contagious. God knows your needs. God alone is capable of providing for your needs! God knows the hearts of the people you are dealing with. Only God can transform their hearts.

Seeking God’s righteousness requires a constant careful examination of your own life so that you guard against sin. This includes the sins of judging others, and focusing on the faults of others, rather than allowing the Holy Spirit to transform your life into Christ’s image. An attitude of seeking God’s righteousness, involves an attitude of forgiveness towards others even as you have been forgiven. Christ is willing to forgive you and forgive your co-workers. God is able to provide you with wisdom so that your righteousness shines brightly in your conversations and conduct so that Christ in you, the hope of glory is revealed.

In quiet confidence, with your head held high, with a holy faith, knowing that you are secure in your Father’s hand – passionately ask, seek, and knock at the throne room of heaven on behalf of the real stories of your colleagues. Ask, seek and knock until they receive with gratitude God’s precious gifts, until they are transformed by Christ, until they open the door and enter by faith into God’s Kingdom.

Read Matthew 6:25-34 on BibleGateway

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine. (Isa 43:1b)

How will you respond to what the people around you are doing? The Bible assures us that God knows what is going on and controls each person’s destiny. God guarantees the blameless that their righteousness will shine like the dawn and that they will spend eternity under the Lord’s care with an inheritance that will endure forever. So why expend energy fretting about other people when you can trust God’s promises to sustain the righteous?

Yes you may stumble, or fret, we all do – but God promises to uphold you with his mighty hand so that your feet never slip. God is your stronghold in times of trouble. Take refuge in God for he will never forsake you. As God’s righteous child, God will enable you to do good, to be just and faithful right where you are working and living today. Seek the Lord and God will grant you words of wisdom and a tongue that speaks what is just in every situation.

God cares for you, his child! You don’t need to get all worked up. Be still and wait patiently for God and in his time, his peace will flood your soul. God is trustworthy so focus your energies on doing good, and dwelling where God has placed you. God has showered you with an abundance of blessings, so invest your time in getting to know him more. Roll the burdens that people around you are placing on your back to the foot of the cross so that you are free to serve God better – for his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

In the morning select one of God’s many precious promises and remind yourself of that promise before each activity throughout your workday.

Hope in the Lord and keep his way!!

Read Psalm 37 on BibleGateway

A bruised reed he will not break,and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. (Isa 42:3)

Stressful days. Days when the boss drops three piles of work on your desk just as you are ready to go home and demands that it be ready for the next morning. Times when your computer dies when you have 15 minutes left to finish your presentation. Days when the best you can do is shake your head at the way your managers, customers, or co-workers are behaving. Days when it feels like you got out of the wrong side of bed, or everybody in your company got out of the wrong side of bed.

It’s hard to believe that Jesus meets us in our stress. There are times when I wish I hadn’t allowed the stress in my life to consume me. I wish I always could believe that Jesus who was wounded for my healing, loves to heal me in my stress so that I can bring healing to others. I know in my heart that this is a present reality, but in my mind I sometimes wonder if it is just a psychological possibility. Thanks be to God that Jesus rewards me for my faithfulness and not my feelings

Today Jesus in his righteousness is with you. Jesus is taken the broken places where your work, and the broken pieces of your life and raising them to new life and giving them new meaning. Because of Jesus’ infinite grace and the redemptive power of forgiveness, you are growing into a mature, compassionate and wise leader. Praise the Lord!

Jesus delights in your continued faithfulness in your workplace. Jesus mourns with your struggle to cope with yet another tough, stressful workday. Jesus continues to strengthen you so that you don’t grow weary you as you faithfully, prayerfully, possibly tearfully prepare to go back again tomorrow. Jesus knows your faithfulness. Jesus knows your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. Jesus knows that you continue to demonstrate Christ’s love in your workplace. Jesus knows that you have remained true to his Holy name, and not walked away from your faith. The one who is holy and true, knows your deeds, knows that though you are weak you continue to faithfully depend on his strength.

Continue to buy from God gold refined in the fire so that you build up treasures in heaven. Allow Christ to keep on cleansing you from all unrighteousness so that you may wear clothes washed whiter than snow. Allow Jesus to touch your eyes, so that you might see Christ. Continue to be faithful and one day Christ will crown you with the victor’s crown and grant you the right to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God. The day is coming when you will reign with him in glory forever.

Read Isa 43:1-4 on BibleGateway

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.
For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
(Ps 33:3-4)

Do you find yourself having trouble today in your world? Are things going differently then what you planned? Are people behaving in ways you didn’t expect them to behave? Look to Jesus – he knows that you would have trouble in this world. Jesus died for you, Jesus overcame the world, so that you might have peace today!

There is nothing that man has invented or that God has created that can save your soul. The Lord who watches over you is the only one who can save you and keep you during this time in the desert – if you will obey and trust him.

Because you are righteous in the eyes of the Lord, you can sing a new song with shouts of joy to your Creator. Your song of praise is not based on your circumstances but on the fact the word of the Lord is true. God’s word which spoke the world into existence is powerful enough to deliver you, to heal you, and to restore you. God’s plans for you and for his creation stand firm forever and cannot be shaken. No matter what is going on in your life, you can trust everything God is doing.

Since God has chosen you to be his child, you are blessed and can be filled with joy today. Don’t worry – God is looking down from heaven and sees everything that is going on in your life. God knows your heart, God knows your thoughts. God knows what the people around you are doing, God knows their heart, God knows their thoughts. God understands exactly how you feel. God is the only help and shield you need today.

In the mystery of what is happening in your life, put your hope in the Lord. Rest today, with your hope in God’s unfailing love which surrounds you. Rejoice!

Read Psalm 33 on BibleGateway