I really love my job, although it’s a field that I never
thought I would pursue, I have come to love it and I would always want to work
in this field for the rest of my life. One of the reasons why I love my job is
because every day I meet different people with different needs all looking for
a solution or at least some guidance to get through some situation. I always
try to help them out and although sometimes I never have a solution to their
problems, I listen and direct them to someone or something that will help. It is
a very nice job because I get to interact with many people, listen, smile,
laugh and even encourage. It gives me so much joy and many times I leave work
in the evening with a great feeling of satisfaction and never tired.
However, it can be difficult sometime because I don’t always
meet people with nice personalities. Sometimes I meet rude, mean or even
abusive people. In these moments, it can be difficult because my job requires
that I still remain nice. At times I want to get mad and even give a rude
response but I have no choice but to be quiet, listen and try to empathize. You see, being nice to those people who are
nice to us is never a problem. However, being nice and kind to those people who
are rude to us is very difficult. Sometimes I have found myself walking out on
a person who gets rude or starts to quarrel because it is not in me to be
quarrel. Not that I can’t be rude or quarrel, it’s just that I sound horrible
when I get mad. However, because I have desired to be more like Christ, He has
helped me to realize that I need not to be rude but be kind.
I would be a liar if I said that this process has been easy.
However, I am grateful to God and His word. I have learnt that He requires of
us to be kind because it is the right thing to do. He requires us to be filled
with goodness and be patience because this way we are able to win many people
to Him. Galatians 5:22 says that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self control. God expects us to live by the spirit which means
that we have to have this fruit. It can
be hard to be all these when the world around us is the opposite. When customers
are rude, colleagues are plotting evil; the bosses do not want to listen,
friends take advantage of our kindness and many other challenges.
I have read books talking about how love must be tough and
how love and respect must be two way but God has been teaching me that we don’t
just love only those who can love us. The bible talks of following the example
of Jesus who was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth, he was
led like a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth (Isaiah 53:7), to love; which requires of us to be
patient even with those who are unkind. To forgiving those who walk over us or
even take advantage of us and so many other mean acts.
Patience, kindness, goodness and the above are not easy. However,
I have been learning that to be patience it requires us to do nothing. If you
want to walk in patience you just do nothing even when you are hurt, don’t even
talk about the person who hurts you with others, that can turn into gossip. Instead,
you should take time and pray. To be kind requires us that instead of being
rude or mean when someone is mean, we should take this opportunity to do good
to them. That is, to overcome evil with good. Goodness requires us to just be
nice at all times. This is where gentleness and self control comes in. we ought
to have self control at all times because at times, our flesh will want to
repay evil with evil. Only self control will help us overcome the flesh and
that way we will be gentle and kind. When we do this, joy will never depart
from our hearts. However, let’s remember that we can’t achieve this on our own.
We can only achieve it through having a constant walk with God, that is like
having an intimate relationship with God which requires us to take time to be
with Him, listen to him, read his word, worship him and pray.
God bless you and keep growing in Him.
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