We all run into prickly thickets from time to time as we are charging hard down the path of our careers.
Perhaps you are getting dressed down by an irate customer. Or it suddenly dawns on you that you’ve made a huge and costly mistake. Or maybe everyone on the team is now ganging up on your previously brilliant idea.
Whatever it is, you know it means trouble.
When things are not going so well at work, sometimes God provides a way out: an opportunity for spiritual intervention.
But it doesn’t always happen in a blinding flash of light, the way you would hope or expect. More often, the Almighty’s rescue beacon is nothing more than a dim and hazy hint, like the glimmer of a poorly-lit exit sign through a rain-pelted windshield along a very dark and lonely highway. It’s there all right, but if you’re not paying real close attention, you might miss it.
It is in these vulnerable moments when our leadership is tested, when we feel the dark pull of descent into panic and despair, it is here that we have an opportunity to access the infinite power of the Holy Spirit.
But it’s a choice, really. A choice to give in to a spiritual power that transcends your own, to reveal the greater good of the situation. Or a choice of short-sighted self-obsession, where anxiety and revenge rule our decisions.
The first step in climbing out of this valley of despair is to give up any shred of control we think we have over the outcome.
And this, my friend, is when God can do great things.
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