Just Business
I was talking to someone about how staff are often treated as a liability instead of an asset. A lot of companies are cutting back on the number of staff they employ in order to boost profits. The problem, is that those still working for the company, have to work harder, faster and longer hours to cover their increased workloads. This is all done in the name of “good business”.
I wondered how different things would be if God had made our world on a similar strategy. I really had trouble thinking about this because it was something that I really could not see God doing. It is just not Him!
However, the closest I could get, was, every human being would have a particular job, therefore, every person needed for each particular job would be made the same way, those needed to make cars would all have the same skills, those needed to farm would be the same and so it would go on. There would be no need for artists, writers or imagination because they would be surplus to the needs of the world. It would be just a business world.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Not long after this conversation, I was out mowing my lawn, not because I had to but because I wanted to. I found myself enjoying the task as a result.
I realised that God made our world the way He did because He didn’t want us to love Him because we had to, or there was nothing else for us to do. The truth is we probably wouldn’t love Him at all, we would all be machines paying lip service to our Maker. He made this world the way He wanted to because He wanted us to enjoy the world He made and to love Him out of amazement not mechanically.
It is not just business for God, it is a love for us and His creation and a desire to have a real relationship with each and every one of us that is important for Him. It is also something that we should also desire to have with each other, including our employees.
“We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” 1John 4:19-20.
Let’s be creative not just business like and enjoy our world more.