Waiting on the Re-organization

We've had a big project going on at work this year.

We're taking several independently run profit centers and combining them into a single, encompassing entity.

Most companies call it an "integration" or a "reorganization."

It's natural that most of us employees have an ongoing twinge of distraction throughout the course of an effort like this.

There are many unanswered questions that hang out there for months and months.

"Will my job change? Will I have a new boss? Will my office move?"

But there is nothing you can do to rush the process, and no single document exists to explain every single change that is going to occur. So you wait, wonder and keep doing your daily work as best you can. That's all anyone really expects of you. All they can expect.

"That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come." Matthew 24:39-42

Keep at God's work every day, sharing the Good News, and loving his people. That's all anyone really expects of you. All they can expect.

What do you believe?

Nice work, is it new?

I finished a simple electrical project in our house during the holiday weekend. It had been partially finished for quite some time, but I wanted to do the work when neither air conditioning or heating would be a dire necessity -- just in case I had trouble with the breakers or anything.

After my wife and daughter returned from their travels, I accompanied them to the basement to show off my handiwork.

They stopped and inspected the wall plug and metal conduit running up the wall, where I had now plugged in our storage freezer. Ooh's and ahh's for the professional looking work and convenience of having an extra 20-amp plug.

I hesitated to tell them at first, and allowed a bemused smile to break out on my face.

"What's so funny?" my daughter asked?

"Well," I answered, "that's not what I did this weekend. That wall plug and conduit have been right there for the last two years. All I did was connect it to the breaker box...on the other end of the basement."

They both had a hard time believing they had been walking past the nicely done, but power-less electrical receptacle for more than two years.

We shouldn't be surprised if people don't suddenly recognize a change in us whenever we've experienced a new Spiritual insight or heard a great sermon. They're just walking past the same receptable (you/me) that was there yesterday. Looks nice, can't really use it.

But plug into the breaker box and get some power - now they can see the actionable value in their midst - you can safely plug in the freezer unit instead of haphazardly draping a wire from the light socket in the midde of the room.

I've done a lot of "nice work" on my spirtual life in past years - more Bible study, more prayer - looks nice and tidy on the wall there; but the real results are where God's power has taken action and transformed it to accomplish his good intentions: service, love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness.

You've got to plug the conduit into the power box.

What do you believe?